The Changing Faces of Citizenship: Integration and Mobilization Among Ethnic Minorities in Germany

In contrast to most migration studies that focus on specific foreignerA" 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 migrantsA" 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 facesA" 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 Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Explaining the Paradigm Shift in German Citizenship Law German Citizenship in Transition Theoretical and Empirical Parameters of the Study Methodological Framework(s) Chapter 1. Citizenship, Nationality, Identity: Community Interfacing Reconsidered Demographics, Globalization, and Competitiveness Concepts of Incorporation Thinking Globally, Integrating Locally Paradigm Shifts: Citizenship Reform, 1999-2004 The Argument: Citizenship Equals ??? Chapter 2. The Invisible Man (and Woman): Permanently Provisional Guestworkers Labor Recruitment and the Economic Miracle of the 1960s Family Unification and the Myth of Return in the 1970s From Auslander to Inlander: Generational Dynamics of the 1980s and 1990s Missing Links: Gender and Generational Change Dual Nationality or Divided Identities? Chapter 3. Blood versus Birthplace: German "Resettlers" The Right of Return: Integration Successes of the 1950s and 1960s Peaceful Coexistence : Eastern Resettlers of the 1970s and 1980s Post-Soviet "Others": Integration Failures of the 1990s Female "Birds of Passage": Dequalification and Redomestication A Lost Generation: Aussiedler Youth You can never go home again and Other Identity Conundrums Chapter 4. Changing Places, Temporary Faces: Religion, Refugees and Diasporas Political Legacies, Contingency Refugees and "Little Asylum" Jewish Quota Refugees as Honorary Germans Bosnians, Kosovars and "Temporary" Asylum Fundamentalism and Islamic Diaspora Communities The Taliban Effect: Addressing Gender-Specific Persecution The Integration of Permanently "Provisional" Refugees Chapter 5. Learning-by-Doing: Ethnic Enclaves in Berlin Cultivating the Ethnic Economy in Modell Deutschland Turkish Delight: From Guest to Gourmet in the Doner-Capital Self-Made Men: Success Stories of the "One-and-a-Half" Generation Self-Made Women: Building a Room-of-their-Own in Berlin Leaving La Dolce Vita: Italian Workers and their Discontents From Bakers to Breadwinners: Italian Women How Transnational Italians Tamed the Toscana-Faction Mobility without Migration: Polish Grenzganger as the New Guestworkers Parallel Societies: Poles in Berlin Mixed Embeddedness: Urban Citizenship through Economic Integration Chapter 6. Chicken or Egg? Political Participation and Social Integration Social Capital and (Self-)Interest Organizations Cross-Border Comparisons and "Best Practices" The Netherlands Britain, Sweden and Denmark Do-It-Yourself Political Mobilization Activist Faces in Intercultural Spaces Integration through Participation: Citizenship at Last! To be or not to be German? Youth Identification Claims-Making and EU Citizenship: Rights without Representation Chapter 7. Multiculturalism for a New Millennium: Citizenship with a Human Face The Quality of Life in Multi-Cultural Cities: Best Practices Putting the "R" back into Integration: Islam in the City Educating for Citizenship: Islam in the Classroom Religious Veil or Political Smokescreen? The Headscarf Debate It's a generational thing! It's a gender thing! It's a German identity thing! Re-assessing the Democratic Deficit in Europe Conclusion: Beyond Repressive Tolerance Appendix: Interview Partners Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Joyce Marie Mushaben is a Professor of Comparative Politics and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. An itinerant scholar since the 1970s, she has studied political mobilization, national identity, gender dynamics and generational change at universities in Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, and Erfurt, thanks to generous support from the DAAD, the Fulbright Commission, the Ford Foundation, the German Marshall Fund and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, inter alia.

Review :
Mushaben's major contribution to our understanding of migration and settlement, and of Germany as a country that contains diasporas, is that she has brought together the enormous literatures regarding Germany's admission and absorption of the very different migrant population which have most often been studies individually.A" * Diaspora