The Changing Faces of Citizenship : : Integration and Mobilization among Ethnic Minorities in Germany / / Joyce Marie Mushaben.

• VerfasserIn: Mushaben, Joyce Marie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; TABLES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION: EXPLAINING THE PARADIGM SHIFT IN GERMAN CITIZENSHIP LAW --; CHAPTER 1 CITIZENSHIP, NATIONALITY, IDENTITY Community Interfacing Reconsidered --; CHAPTER 2 THE INVISIBLE MAN (AND WOMAN) Permanently Provisional Guestworkers --; CHAPTER 3 BLOOD VERSUS BIRTHPLACE Ethnic-German “Resettlers” from East/Central Europe --; CHAPTER 4 CHANGING PLACES, TEMPORARY FACES Religion, Refugees, and Diasporas --; CHAPTER 5 LEARNING-BY-DOING Ethnic Enclaves and Economic Integration in Berlin --; CHAPTER 6 CHICKEN OR EGG? Citizenship, Social Integration, and Political Participation --; CHAPTER 7 MULTICULTURALISM FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM Citizenship with a Human Face --; Conclusion: Beyond Repressive Tolerance --; APPENDIX: INTERVIEW PARTNERS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857450388
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857450388
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joyce Marie Mushaben.

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.