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Governmental Migration Research in Germany: Knowledge Production at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
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Abstract The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is the central executive authority on migration and integration policy in Germany. Vinzenz Kratzer analyses the Federal Office's research output between 2005 and 2015 with a joint perspective of Ethnography and Political Science. In the wake of po... view more
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is the central executive authority on migration and integration policy in Germany. Vinzenz Kratzer analyses the Federal Office's research output between 2005 and 2015 with a joint perspective of Ethnography and Political Science. In the wake of political reforms after the "paradigm change" around the turn of the millennium, the development of practically relevant knowledge can be traced. While governmental researchers were able to establish themselves in the bureaucracy with some success, they bought this influence with uncontroversial, depoliticized knowledge production, while the production of seemingly politically irrelevant knowledge - most importantly on racism and discrimination - is underdeveloped.... view less
Keywords
migration; science; Federal Republic of Germany; politics; sociology of knowledge; cultural anthropology; sociology; sociology of science; knowledge production; integration policy
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Sociology of Knowledge
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
Anthropology of the State
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
237 p.
Series
Kultur und soziale Praxis
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457092
ISSN
2703-0032
ISBN
978-3-8394-5709-2
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed