Naika Foroutan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naika Foroutan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naika |
| FAMILY NAME | Foroutan |
| SIGNATURE | FOROUTAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-5040-2005 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Undoing one-dimensionality
This paper critically examines Germany’s 2024 citizenship reform, designed to promote integration and pluralism through legal and societal transformations. We argue that the prevailing migration discourse in Germany reinforces a one-dimensional political framework, reducing migrants to single-issue subjects—either threats or victims, economic assets or social burdens. This approach to migration falls short of capturing Germany’s evolving socio-po…
Outgroup mobility threat - how much intergenerational integration is wanted
The descendants of immigrants have become increasingly successful in Western European education systems and labor markets, which in principle supports Richard Alba’s new assimilation theory (NAT). Still, acceptance and recognition on the part of the mainstream has not kept pace. We have suggested outgroup mobility threat (OMT), the fear of being overtaken by intergenerational mobility, as one possible explanation. However, Richard Alba has argued…
Spatiality of Social Stress Experienced by Refugee Women in Initial Reception Centers
This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the multi-dimensionality of social stress within the spatiality of initial refugee reception centers in Berlin. By focusing particularly on the experiences of women who fled from Syria and Afghanistan, it situates this humanitarian issue within an analytical framework of gender-sensitive and culturally sensitive research and policymaking. Through qualitative interviews with 11 refuge…
Plurality resistance
Die postmigrantische Gesellschaft
Das Erstarken rechtspopulistischer Bewegungen führt zu einer Normverschiebung in europäischen Gesellschaften und erzeugt Spannungen, die sich in Polarisierung widerspiegeln. Es geht dabei weniger um Migration selbst als um die Prozesse, die stattfinden, wenn Migrant*innen und ihre Nachkommen ihre Rechte einfordern. Die Frage des Umgangs mit Migration wird so zur Chiffre für Anerkennung von Gleichheit in demokratischen Gesellschaften. Naika Forout…
Race for Second Place? Explaining East-West Differences in Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Germany
It has been shown that anti-Muslim sentiment is more pronounced in East Germany than in West Germany. In this paper, we discuss existing explanations and add to them. We argue that some East Germans see themselves as a disadvantaged group in competition with other minorities, such as Muslims, for social recognition by West Germans; they are in what we call a "race for second place". Based on social identity theory, we expect that this might be pa…
Einleitung
II. Ambivalenzen und Ambiguitäten
Literatur
III. Antagonisten und Allianzen
I. Anerkennung und Aushandlung
Vorwort und Danksagung
Inhalt
Grundlagen und Kernthese
Fazit, Ausblick und Nachwort
Gleichheitsanspruchs und das Versprechen der Reduktion von Ungleichheit treiben die demokratischen Gesellschaften Europas dynamisch an.
Die postmigrantische Gesellschaft
Das Erstarken rechtspopulistischer Bewegungen führt zu einer Normverschiebung in europäischen Gesellschaften und erzeugt Spannungen, die sich in Polarisierung widerspiegeln. Es geht dabei weniger um Migration selbst als um die Prozesse, die stattfinden, wenn Migrant*innen und ihre Nachkommen ihre Rechte einfordern. Die Frage des Umgangs mit Migration wird so zur Chiffre für Anerkennung von Gleichheit in demokratischen Gesellschaften. Naika Forout…
Die postmigrantische Perspektive
Es ist an der Zeit
Kopftuch-Debatten in Europa
Changing perceptions? Effects of multiple social categorisation on German population's perception of Muslims
Multiple social categorisation is one option for influencing people’s perception such that negative social opinions based on ethnicity, race, or religion decrease or disappear entirely. This study aims to examine German population’s perception of Muslims when multiple categorisation is applied. Based on data of 7341 respondents stemming from a factorial survey experiment used in a national, random-digit-dial telephone survey, we tested the effect…
Konviviale Integration in postmigrantischen Gesellschaften
Zwischen Konfrontation und Dialog
Changing perceptions? Effects of multiple social categorisation on German population's perception of Muslims
Multiple social categorisation is one option for influencing people’s perception such that negative social opinions based on ethnicity, race, or religion decrease or disappear entirely. This study aims to examine German population’s perception of Muslims when multiple categorisation is applied. Based on data of 7341 respondents stemming from a factorial survey experiment used in a national, random-digit-dial telephone survey, we tested the effect…
Race for Second Place? Explaining East-West Differences in Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Germany
It has been shown that anti-Muslim sentiment is more pronounced in East Germany than in West Germany. In this paper, we discuss existing explanations and add to them. We argue that some East Germans see themselves as a disadvantaged group in competition with other minorities, such as Muslims, for social recognition by West Germans; they are in what we call a "race for second place". Based on social identity theory, we expect that this might be pa…
Outgroup mobility threat - how much intergenerational integration is wanted
The descendants of immigrants have become increasingly successful in Western European education systems and labor markets, which in principle supports Richard Alba’s new assimilation theory (NAT). Still, acceptance and recognition on the part of the mainstream has not kept pace. We have suggested outgroup mobility threat (OMT), the fear of being overtaken by intergenerational mobility, as one possible explanation. However, Richard Alba has argued…
Zwischen Konfrontation und Dialog
Konviviale Integration in postmigrantischen Gesellschaften
Kopftuch-Debatten in Europa
Changing perceptions? Effects of multiple social categorisation on German population's perception of Muslims
Multiple social categorisation is one option for influencing people’s perception such that negative social opinions based on ethnicity, race, or religion decrease or disappear entirely. This study aims to examine German population’s perception of Muslims when multiple categorisation is applied. Based on data of 7341 respondents stemming from a factorial survey experiment used in a national, random-digit-dial telephone survey, we tested the effect…
Die postmigrantische Perspektive
Es ist an der Zeit
Einleitung
II. Ambivalenzen und Ambiguitäten
Literatur
III. Antagonisten und Allianzen
I. Anerkennung und Aushandlung
Vorwort und Danksagung
Inhalt
Grundlagen und Kernthese
Fazit, Ausblick und Nachwort
Gleichheitsanspruchs und das Versprechen der Reduktion von Ungleichheit treiben die demokratischen Gesellschaften Europas dynamisch an.
Die postmigrantische Gesellschaft
Das Erstarken rechtspopulistischer Bewegungen führt zu einer Normverschiebung in europäischen Gesellschaften und erzeugt Spannungen, die sich in Polarisierung widerspiegeln. Es geht dabei weniger um Migration selbst als um die Prozesse, die stattfinden, wenn Migrant*innen und ihre Nachkommen ihre Rechte einfordern. Die Frage des Umgangs mit Migration wird so zur Chiffre für Anerkennung von Gleichheit in demokratischen Gesellschaften. Naika Forout…
Die postmigrantische Gesellschaft
Das Erstarken rechtspopulistischer Bewegungen führt zu einer Normverschiebung in europäischen Gesellschaften und erzeugt Spannungen, die sich in Polarisierung widerspiegeln. Es geht dabei weniger um Migration selbst als um die Prozesse, die stattfinden, wenn Migrant*innen und ihre Nachkommen ihre Rechte einfordern. Die Frage des Umgangs mit Migration wird so zur Chiffre für Anerkennung von Gleichheit in demokratischen Gesellschaften. Naika Forout…
Race for Second Place? Explaining East-West Differences in Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Germany
It has been shown that anti-Muslim sentiment is more pronounced in East Germany than in West Germany. In this paper, we discuss existing explanations and add to them. We argue that some East Germans see themselves as a disadvantaged group in competition with other minorities, such as Muslims, for social recognition by West Germans; they are in what we call a "race for second place". Based on social identity theory, we expect that this might be pa…
Spatiality of Social Stress Experienced by Refugee Women in Initial Reception Centers
This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the multi-dimensionality of social stress within the spatiality of initial refugee reception centers in Berlin. By focusing particularly on the experiences of women who fled from Syria and Afghanistan, it situates this humanitarian issue within an analytical framework of gender-sensitive and culturally sensitive research and policymaking. Through qualitative interviews with 11 refuge…
Plurality resistance
Outgroup mobility threat - how much intergenerational integration is wanted
The descendants of immigrants have become increasingly successful in Western European education systems and labor markets, which in principle supports Richard Alba’s new assimilation theory (NAT). Still, acceptance and recognition on the part of the mainstream has not kept pace. We have suggested outgroup mobility threat (OMT), the fear of being overtaken by intergenerational mobility, as one possible explanation. However, Richard Alba has argued…
Undoing one-dimensionality
This paper critically examines Germany’s 2024 citizenship reform, designed to promote integration and pluralism through legal and societal transformations. We argue that the prevailing migration discourse in Germany reinforces a one-dimensional political framework, reducing migrants to single-issue subjects—either threats or victims, economic assets or social burdens. This approach to migration falls short of capturing Germany’s evolving socio-po…
Political science (7 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · German legal, social, and political studies (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works)