"Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities" is a study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 1940s, and Bielefeld, Germany in the 1970s. Employing a cross-national comparative framework, Hans Werner reveals that the imagined trajectory of immigrant lives influenced the process of integration into a new urban environment. Winnipeg s migrants chose a receiving society where they knew they would again be a minority group in a foreign country, while Bielefeld s newcomers...