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dc.contributor.authorGerdes, Jürgende
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-19T11:02:00Zde
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-20T09:53:03Z
dc.date.available2015-01-20T09:53:03Z
dc.date.issued2010de
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/41376
dc.description.abstract"Meanwhile, immigrant integration is one of the top themes of the political and public discourse in Germany. The article explores – based on a content and argumentation analysis of policy documents and parliamentary debates – the political party conceptions of immigrant integration and asks for changing criteria of inclusion and exclusion and the redrawing of discursive as well as legal boundaries between citizens and non-citizens in Germany. By first applying Seyla Benhabib’s "paradox of democratic legitimacy" as a category of analysis and comparison of two parliamentary debates (concerning the 1990 Foreigner Law and the 2004 Immigration Law), it turns out that the formal "legitimacy quality" of arguments, in terms of justifying immigration and integration policies as balancing the interests of the national state with legitimate claims of immigrants, has decreased since Germany’s self-recognition as an immigration country. Second, by exploring how the term integration is defined, used and explained by political representatives and in official documents more recently, a growing interparty consensus is visible, according to which integration is primarily related to education and employability, and corresponding competencies of individual persons. Because of obvious analogies with discourses and laws in social and labor market policies, it is finally argued that the most promising explanation of the current German integration regime places integration within a far-reaching transformation of the German welfare system toward an activation state, in which rights are increasingly made conditional on individual performances that are considered beneficial to collective goals such as the economic development of overall society. Such an interpretation, however, qualifies premature diagnoses regarding a “return of assimilation” or "retreat of multiculturalism" as well as old-fashioned accounts of still existing elements of a former ethno-cultural understanding in Germany and so-called postnational and rights-based approaches." [author's abstract]en
dc.languageende
dc.subject.ddcSozialwissenschaften, Soziologiede
dc.subject.ddcSocial sciences, sociology, anthropologyen
dc.titleMigrants' rights and immigrant integration in German political party discoursede
dc.description.reviewbegutachtetde
dc.description.reviewrevieweden
dc.source.volume90de
dc.publisher.countryDEU
dc.publisher.cityBielefeldde
dc.source.seriesCOMCAD Working Papers
dc.subject.classozMigrationde
dc.subject.classozMigration, Sociology of Migrationen
dc.subject.thesozMigrationde
dc.subject.thesozmigrationen
dc.subject.thesozIntegrationde
dc.subject.thesozintegrationen
dc.subject.thesozberufliche Integrationde
dc.subject.thesozoccupational integrationen
dc.subject.thesozsoziale Integrationde
dc.subject.thesozsocial integrationen
dc.subject.thesozDiskursde
dc.subject.thesozdiscourseen
dc.subject.thesozPolitikde
dc.subject.thesozpoliticsen
dc.subject.thesozSozialpolitikde
dc.subject.thesozsocial policyen
dc.subject.thesozRechtspolitikde
dc.subject.thesozlegal policyen
dc.subject.thesozLegitimationde
dc.subject.thesozlegitimationen
dc.subject.thesozAktivierungde
dc.subject.thesozactivationen
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-413763
dc.date.modified2012-11-30T10:29:00Zde
dc.rights.licenceDeposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitungde
dc.rights.licenceDeposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modificationsen
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dc.source.pageinfo31de
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dc.contributor.corporateeditorUniversität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD)
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