Mushaben The Changing Faces of Citizenship

Integration and Mobilization among Ethnic Minorities in Germany
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-85745-038-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books
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In contrast to most migration studies that focus on specific “foreigner” groups in Germany, this study simultaneously compares and contrasts the legal, political, social, and economic opportunity structures facing diverse categories of the ethnic minorities who have settled in the country since the 1950s. It reveals the contradictory, and usually self-defeating, nature of German policies intended to keep “migrants” out—allegedly in order to preserve a German Leitkultur (with which very few of its own citizens still identify). The main barriers to effective integration—and socioeconomic revitalization in general—sooner lie in the country’s obsolete labor market regulations and bureaucratic procedures. Drawing on local case studies, personal interviews, and national surveys, the author describes “the human faces” behind official citizenship and integration practices in Germany, and in doing so demonstrates that average citizens are much more multi-cultural than they realize.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mushaben, Joyce Marie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Explaining the Paradigm Shift in German Citizenship Law

German Citizenship in Transition
Theoretical and Empirical Parameters of the Study
Methodological Framework(s)

Chapter 1. Citizenship, Nationality, Identity: Community Interfacing Reconsidered

Demographics, Globalization, and Competitiveness
Concepts of Incorporation
Thinking Globally, Integrating Locally
Paradigm Shifts: Citizenship Reform, 1999-2004
The Argument: Citizenship Equals ???

Chapter 2. The Invisible Man (and Woman): Permanently Provisional Guestworkers

Labor Recruitment and the Economic Miracle of the 1960s
Family Unification and the Myth of Return in the 1970s
From Ausländer to Inländer: Generational Dynamics of the 1980s and 1990s
Missing Links: Gender and Generational Change
Dual Nationality or Divided Identities?

Chapter 3. Blood versus Birthplace: German "Resettlers"

The Right of Return: Integration Successes of the 1950s and 1960s
Peaceful Coexistence : Eastern Resettlers of the 1970s and 1980s
Post-Soviet "Others": Integration Failures of the 1990s
Female "Birds of Passage": Dequalification and Redomestication
A Lost Generation: Aussiedler Youth
You can never go home again and Other Identity Conundrums

Chapter 4. Changing Places, Temporary Faces: Religion, Refugees and Diasporas

Political Legacies, Contingency Refugees and "Little Asylum"
Jewish Quota
Refugees as Honorary Germans
Bosnians, Kosovars and "Temporary" Asylum
Fundamentalism and Islamic Diaspora Communities
The Taliban Effect: Addressing Gender-Specific Persecution
The Integration of Permanently "Provisional" Refugees

Chapter 5. Learning-by-Doing: Ethnic Enclaves in Berlin

Cultivating the Ethnic Economy in Modell Deutschland
Turkish Delight: From Guest to Gourmet in the Döner-Capital
Self-Made Men: Success Stories of the "One-and-a-Half" Generation
Self-Made Women: Building a Room-of-their-Own in Berlin
Leaving La Dolce Vita: Italian Workers and their Discontents
From Bakers to Breadwinners: Italian Women
How Transnational Italians Tamed the Toscana-Faction
Mobility without Migration: Polish Grenzgänger as the New Guestworkers
Parallel Societies: Poles in Berlin
Mixed Embeddedness: Urban Citizenship through Economic Integration

Chapter 6. Chicken or Egg? Political Participation and Social Integration

Social Capital and (Self-)Interest Organizations
Cross-Border Comparisons and "Best Practices"
The Netherlands
Britain, Sweden and Denmark
Do-It-Yourself Political Mobilization
Activist Faces in Intercultural Spaces
Integration through Participation: Citizenship at Last!
To be or not to be German?
Youth Identification
Claims-Making and EU Citizenship: Rights without Representation

Chapter 7. Multiculturalism for a New Millennium: Citizenship with a Human Face

The Quality of Life in Multi-Cultural Cities: Best Practices
Putting the "R" back into Integration: Islam in the City
Educating for Citizenship: Islam in the Classroom
Religious Veil or Political Smokescreen? The Headscarf Debate
It’s a generational thing!
It’s a gender thing!
It’s a German identity thing!
Re-assessing the Democratic Deficit in Europe

Conclusion: Beyond Repressive Tolerance
Appendix: Interview Partners
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mushaben, Joyce Marie

Joyce Marie Mushaben is a Professor of Comparative Politics and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. An itinerant scholar since the 1970s, she has studied political mobilization, national identity, gender dynamics and generational change at universities in Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, and Erfurt, thanks to generous support from the DAAD, the Fulbright Commission, the Ford Foundation, the German Marshall Fund and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, inter alia.