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Berghahn Books The Changing Faces of Citizenship Integration and Mobilization among Ethnic Minorities in Germany 2008 Edition by 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. Table of contents :- Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Explaining the Paradigm Shift in German Citizenship LawGerman Citizenship in TransitionTheoretical and Empirical Parameters of the StudyMethodological Framework(s)Chapter 1. Citizenship, Nationality, Identity: Community Interfacing ReconsideredDemographics, Globalization, and CompetitivenessConcepts of IncorporationThinking Globally, Integrating LocallyParadigm Shifts: Citizenship Reform, 1999-2004The Argument: Citizenship Equals ???Chapter 2. The Invisible Man (and Woman): Permanently Provisional GuestworkersLabor Recruitment and the Economic Miracle of the 1960sFamily Unification and the Myth of Return in the 1970sFrom Auslander to Inlander: Generational Dynamics of the 1980s and 1990sMissing Links: Gender and Generational ChangeDual Nationality or Divided Identities?Chapter 3. Blood versus Birthplace: German "Resettlers"The Right of Return: Integration Successes of the 1950s and 1960sPeaceful Coexistence : Eastern Resettlers of the 1970s and 1980sPost-Soviet "Others": Integration Failures of the 1990sFemale "Birds of Passage": Dequalification and RedomesticationA Lost Generation: Aussiedler YouthYou can never go home again and Other Identity ConundrumsChapter 4. Changing Places, Temporary Faces: Religion, Refugees and DiasporasPolitical Legacies, Contingency Refugees and "Little Asylum"Jewish QuotaRefugees as Honorary GermansBosnians, Kosovars and "Temporary" AsylumFundamentalism and Islamic Diaspora CommunitiesThe Taliban Effect: Addressing Gender-Specific PersecutionThe Integration of Permanently "Provisional" RefugeesChapter 5. Learning-by-Doing: Ethnic Enclaves in BerlinCultivating the Ethnic Economy in Modell DeutschlandTurkish Delight: From Guest to Gourmet in the Doener-CapitalSelf-Made Men: Success Stories of the "One-and-a-Half" GenerationSelf-Made Women: Building a Room-of-their-Own in BerlinLeaving La Dolce Vita: Italian Workers and their DiscontentsFrom Bakers to Breadwinners: Italian WomenHow Transnational Italians Tamed the Toscana-FactionMobility without Migration: Polish Grenzganger as the New GuestworkersParallel Societies: Poles in BerlinMixed Embeddedness: Urban Citizenship through Economic IntegrationChapter 6. Chicken or Egg? Political Participation and Social IntegrationSocial Capital and (Self-)Interest OrganizationsCross-Border Comparisons and "Best Practices"The NetherlandsBritain, Sweden and DenmarkDo-It-Yourself Political MobilizationActivist Faces in Intercultural SpacesIntegration through Participation: Citizenship at Last!To be or not to be German?Youth IdentificationClaims-Making and EU Citizenship: Rights without RepresentationChapter 7. Multiculturalism for a New Millennium: Citizenship with a Human FaceThe Quality of Life in Multi-Cultural Cities: Best PracticesPutting the "R" back into Integration: Islam in the CityEducating for Citizenship: Islam in the ClassroomReligious Veil or Political Smokescreen? The Headscarf DebateIt's a generational thing!It's a gender thing!It's a German identity thing!Re-assessing the Democratic Deficit in EuropeConclusion: Beyond Repressive ToleranceAppendix: Interview PartnersBibliographyIndex