No country for migrants? : : critical perspectives on asylum, immigration, and integration in Germany / / Wilfried Zoungrana.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; Volume 147
• VerfasserIn: Zoungrana, Wilfried,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 147.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

No Country for Migrants? Critical Perspectives on Asylum, Immigration, and Integration in Germany aims to critically contribute to ongoing debates about immigration, integration, and xenophobia in Germany. Set against the backdrop of Germany’s controversial political decision to open its borders to refugees in 2015, the book realigns this watershed with the broader historical narratives of migration to explain its exceptionality both as an event and transformative force on the migration/integration discourse. The book further uses critical theories to make sense of the shifting socio-political coordinates of Germany. It addresses the history of Germany’s migration policies, its soft and hard power in migration control, language and societal integration, immigration and the revival of right-wing extremism, as well as religion and immigration.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The 2015 German Refugee Crisis as an Event -- An Abbreviated History of Germany’s Migration Discourses and Policies -- Soft and Hard: Power, Asylum, and Germany -- On Language, Integration, and Pedagogy -- Civilization-Culture-Character: the Plateaus of the ‘Clash Rhizome’ -- The “Deep Story” of the Elder Son -- ‘Muslim Girls’ and ‘Muslim Men’: Cursory Notes on Entangled Subalternities -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.