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Blockade und Befreiung: Identitätskrise, Ersatzdebatten und neue Selbstbilder in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft [2013]
Blockade und liberation: identity crisis, surrogate public debates, and new self images in the immigrant society
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Abstract For decades, German scientists, writers, and experts from many fields related to immigration and integration have permanently – but unsuccessfully – been prompting politicians and the government to abandon populistic defensive attitudes against immigration. Instead they called, unsuccessfully too, f... view more
For decades, German scientists, writers, and experts from many fields related to immigration and integration have permanently – but unsuccessfully – been prompting politicians and the government to abandon populistic defensive attitudes against immigration. Instead they called, unsuccessfully too, for the shaping of clear concepts for migration control and integration promotion. Furthermore, they demanded not to spread fake news about ‘failed integration’ but instead to report on the in fact relatively successful integration. However, it was not before the first decade of the twenty-first century that powerful state initiatives were established to promote integration and, to a certain extent, also to re-orientate migration politics. This turn, however, came too late for many people in the country. The result was a paradoxical tension between integration processes that were successful on the whole and wrong perceptions of ‘failed integration.’ Ways out of this dilemma of socially and culturally deficient self-descriptions might be found by open discussions about new narratives activating cultural and social cohesion in the immigrant society with its multitude of identities.... view less
Keywords
integration; self-image; public opinion; behavior modification; Federal Republic of Germany; crisis; integration policy; willingness to integrate; populism; immigration country; migration policy; identity; social cohesion; immigration; reporting
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
anti-Islamic agitation; identity crisis; a new narrative for the immigration society; Islamfeindlichkeit
Document language
German
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 318-337
Journal
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2018) 30
Issue topic
Historische Migrationsforschung / Historical Migration Research
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.30.2018.318-337
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed