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The Changing Faces of Citizenship: Integration and Mobilization Among Ethnic Minorities in Germany

The Changing Faces of Citizenship: Integration and Mobilization Among Ethnic Minorities in Germany

Mushaben, Joyce Marie

Hardcover

Series: Monographs in German History

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1845454537
ISBN13: 9781845454531
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Oct 1 2008
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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