No Country for Migrants? Critical Perspectives on Asylum, Immigration, and Integration in Germany

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41550-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 147, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zoungrana, Wilfried

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1The 2015 German Refugee Crisis as an Event

1From Political to Metaphysical: Multiple Conceptualizations of the Event

2Syria: The Supernumerary of an Evental Site

3Undecidability and the Edge of the Void

4Interventional Gestures

5Transcendental Arrangements

2An Abbreviated History of Germany’s Migration Discourses and Policies

1Historiographical Omissions and Sociological Exclusions

2Bismarck, Leutenot, and the Early Securitization of Migration

3Weber and the Empowerment of Nationalistic Audiences

4Of C2, 3P, and Muddling through: Regulating Securitized Migration

3Soft and Hard: Power, Asylum, and Germany

1Soft Power Meets Asylum

2The ‘Objective’ Soft Power of a Reluctant Hegemon

3The Duality of Soft Power on Asylum

4Hard and Economic Power in Migration Control

4On Language, Integration, and Pedagogy

1Language, Structuralist Linguistics, and Integration

2The Language Testing Regime and its Discontent

3Challenges in Acquiring German as a Second Language, and Integration

4Toward Radical Perspectives on the Pedagogy of Integration

5Civilization-Culture-Character: the Plateaus of the ‘Clash Rhizome’

1Civilization in the Clash Rhizome

2The German Reception of the Clash of Civilizations

3Culture in the Clash Rhizome

4Character between Affects and Late Modernity and Capitalism

6The “Deep Story” of the Elder Son

1The Prodigal Son in the Biblical Narrative

2The Younger Son’s Revolutionary Wager

3The Father and the Cost of Humanitarian Largesse

4Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and the ‘Anger and Mourning’ of the Elder Son

7'Muslim Girls' and 'Muslim Men’: Cursory Notes on Entangled Subalternities

1‘Muslim Women’ and Epistemic Violence

2Migration and (Post) Colonial Path Dependency

3‘Muslim Men’ and a Critique of Patriarchal Reason

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wilfried Zoungrana holds a Ph.D. (2016, University of Erfurt), published as Method as Theory: Lakatos, Methodology, and Interpretive International Relations and Knowledge at War: Epistemology and Terrorism in IR Theory (wvb, 2017). He further published on international law, and culture.