Joyce Marie Mushaben
Biographic Data
| ID | 363949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce Marie Mushaben |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mushaben |
| SIGNATURE | MUSHABEN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From Zeitenwende to Kriegsmüdigkeit: Support for Ukraine as a Campaign Issue in the 2025 Bundestag Elections
Olaf Scholz's declaration of an “epochal turnaround” following Russia's invasion of Ukraine testifies to a paradigm shift in German strategic culture. The 2025 elections confirmed voters’ willingness to embrace a “new responsibility” for global security initiated by Ursula von der Leyen. Despite gains by the Putin-friendly Alternative for Germany, the party most opposed to supporting Ukraine (the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht) failed to enter the Bun…
Backlash! Trump 2.0 und der erneute Kampf um die Gleichberechtigung
What Remains?: The Dialectical Identities of Eastern Germans
This book analyses “East German identity” from the German Democratic Republic through the revolution of 1989 and into the post-unification era.
The Changing Faces of Citizenship: Integration and Mobilization among Ethnic Minorities in Germany
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 prese…
The Politics of Small Steps: Angela Merkel's Transformative Impact on Germany and the European Union
What Remains: The Dialectical Identities of Eastern Germans
Against All Odds: Angela Merkel, Ursula von der Leyen, Anngret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the German Paradox of Female CDU Leadership
Despite its traditional adherence to gender roles limiting women's responsibilities to Kinder, Küche, Kirche, the Christian Democratic Party itself has been ruled by three powerful females since 2018: Chancellor Angela Merkel, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, and CDU General-Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. Despite occasional waves of conservative-hardliner resistance, all three women have helped to modernise the German gender regime w…
The Quest for Gender Parity: Angela Merkel and the Diversification of Electoral Politics in Germany
Given Angela Merkel's long-standing reluctance to label herself a feminist, many scholars would find it hard to credit her with the increasingly "intersectional" composition of the Bundestag and the Landtage as of the 2021 elections. The last 16 years have nonetheless witnessed major shifts in German policies affecting the rights of women, persons with migration background, and lgbtqia community members. These developments have arguably contribut…
Das Vermächtnis: Angela Merkel und die Transformation des deutschen Gender Regimes. Ein Essay
Leseprobe ----- Bibliographie: Mushaben, Joyce Marie: Das Vermächtnis: Angela Merkel und die Transformation des deutschen Gender Regimes. Ein Essay, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 2-2021, S. 157-165. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v30i2.13 ----- Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 14.12.2024 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügba…
A Spectre Haunting Europe
Germany’s 2017 elections marked the first time since 1949 that a far-right party with neo-Nazi adherents crossed the 5 percent threshold, entering the Bundestag. Securing nearly 13 percent of the vote, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) impeded Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ability to pull together a sustainable national coalition for nearly six months. Violating long-standing partisan taboos, the AfD “victory” is a weak reflection of national-populi…
Great Expectations, Structural Limitations: Ursula von der Leyen and the Commission's New Equality Agenda
relation to substantive policies but also with regard to European institutions per se.We argue that von der Leyen has already recognized the gendered nature of leadership, linking it to more gender-inclusive policy ambitions and leadership requirements.Changes in policy performance can also affect wider perceptions of the EU's democratic legitimacy at a critical juncture.The new President will certainly face significant political-institutional ob…
The Dialectical Identity of Eastern Germans
Germans have now been unified for thirty years, longer than they had been separated by concrete barriers, yet the Wall in their respective heads has persisted. Unequal wages, a lack of investment in structurally weak regions, and ongoing western elite domination continue to fuel Eastern perceptions of second-class citizenship, despite significant shifts in the fates of key social groups who initially saw themselves as the "winners" and losers" of…
Trading Places: Securitising Refugee and Asylum Policies in Germany and the United States
Given their radically different historical approaches to immigration and refugees, one would expect Germany and the United States to have adopted diverging policies in these domains following the '9/11' attacks. More surprising is the extent to which they have 'traded places' regarding their respective 'leadiator' and 'laggard' roles concerning asylum rights. Although both countries embraced restrictive practices during the 1980s, US law now conc…
Kan-di(e)-dat
Angela Merkel's four national election campaigns offer a unique opportunity to explore the salience of gender in defining "competent leadership" in unified Germany. Women-friendly themes were deliberately avoided by the candidate and her party during her first two campaigns, but Merkel's personal popularity rendered gender a positive asset during her third run for the Chancellorship in 2013. The 2017 campaign accorded new salience to gender as an…
Angela Merkel's Leadership in the Refugee Crisis
What Merkel's critics underestimate is the extent to which her proactive policies of the past decade encouraging integration and ‘intercultural opening’ have produced an even bigger paradigm shift
Wall flower: Life on the German border
Having studied the post war and post-wall transformation of German political culture for decades, I have read countless texts born of “autobiographical production” before and after unification. As
Wir schaffen das! Angela Merkel and the European Refugee Crisis
Unification triggered profound changes in the geographical, generational and global context that had shaped restrictive German policies regarding citizenship, immigration, asylum and refugees for 40 years. Since 2015 Chancellor Angela Merkel has been praised as well as denounced for her bold decision to open her country to an extraordinary influx of refugees from Northern Africa and the Middle East. Efforts to transform Germany into a ‘welcoming …
German Unification as a Catalyst for Change: Linking Political Transformation at the Domestic and International Levels
Fundamental social, political and economic changes that have taken hold in the Federal Republic since 1990 have undermined the idea of a single master narrative setting the course for unification. This special issue links processes of national transformation to a wide array of domestic, supranational and global developments, highlighting the long-term impact of unification on policy domains often neglected during earlier stages of analysis. At is…
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Angela Merkel, the Grand Coalition, and "Majority Rule" in Germany
Angela Merkel has not only been repeatedly ranked "the world's most powerful woman;" she is also the only German chancellor since 1949 to have successfully led her party to a "normal" victory after a full term heading a grand coalition from 2005-2009. Merkel's ability to lead has been shaped by the dynamics of coalition politics, proportional representation, and German federalism. Perceived as a more successful leader under an exceptional grand c…
A funny thing happened on the way to the mosque: Promoting Civil Society and Religious Pluralism Through Local Conflict
Understood primarily as a meta-narrative reflecting citizens' reluctance to accept migration and Islam as permanent components of their society, grass-roots protests against mosque construction also highlight a democratic paradox regarding multi-level governance: while national governments bear chief responsibility for ensuring fundamental religious freedoms, local authorization procedures affecting mosque construction (e.g. zoning, building perm…
Gendering the European Union
An exploration of European integration as seen through a gender lens. This book looks at integration theories, institutional relationships, enlargement, the development of gender law and the role of f
Alfred Diamant
Alfred Diamant, the Viennese son of a Jewish merchant couple, lost most of hisfamily during the Holocaust. Forced to flee in 1940, Diamant became a lieutenantfor the 82nd Airborne Division, only to be captured and shot behindenemy lines during the D-Day invasion. Denied the right to attend university inAustria, he made up for lost time, completing two degrees at Indiana Universityand a Ph.D. at Yale, concentrating on French public administration
Citizenship and migration policies under Merkel's Grand Coalition
Mindful of Germany's looming demographic deficit and its likely consequences for the national economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel has embraced the fact that Germany is a land of immigration, in stark contrast to other CDU/CSU stalwarts. Assuming power shortly after the enactment of a new Citizenship Law (2000) and the passage of the country's first real immigration cum integration law (2004), Merkel has introduced a pro-active strategy for integrat…
Lieber gleich berechtigt als später! Comparing Women’s Rights in the United States and Germany
Rethinking Citizenship and Identity: What it Means to be German’ since the Fall of the Wall
Twenty years after the Wall's collapse, East and West Germans have yet to achieve a sense of ‘inner unity’. To forge a common national identity not only among those citizens but also among Germans of migrant descent, policy-makers need to grasp the ways in which their respective identity trajectories have diverged over four decades. This article revisits western, eastern and ‘foreigner’ identities prior to 1989; it examines changing opportunity s…
Wir schaffen das! Angela Merkel and the European Refugee Crisis
Unification triggered profound changes in the geographical, generational and global context that had shaped restrictive German policies regarding citizenship, immigration, asylum and refugees for 40 years. Since 2015 Chancellor Angela Merkel has been praised as well as denounced for her bold decision to open her country to an extraordinary influx of refugees from Northern Africa and the Middle East. Efforts to transform Germany into a ‘welcoming …
Great Expectations, Structural Limitations: Ursula von der Leyen and the Commission's New Equality Agenda
relation to substantive policies but also with regard to European institutions per se.We argue that von der Leyen has already recognized the gendered nature of leadership, linking it to more gender-inclusive policy ambitions and leadership requirements.Changes in policy performance can also affect wider perceptions of the EU's democratic legitimacy at a critical juncture.The new President will certainly face significant political-institutional ob…
Against All Odds: Angela Merkel, Ursula von der Leyen, Anngret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the German Paradox of Female CDU Leadership
Despite its traditional adherence to gender roles limiting women's responsibilities to Kinder, Küche, Kirche, the Christian Democratic Party itself has been ruled by three powerful females since 2018: Chancellor Angela Merkel, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, and CDU General-Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. Despite occasional waves of conservative-hardliner resistance, all three women have helped to modernise the German gender regime w…
Cycles of peace protest in West Germany: Experiences from three decades
This article assesses the degree of continuity presumed to exist between West German opposition movements of the 1950s and 1960s, and peace protests of the 1970s and 1980s. It explores the concept of protest 'cycles' and outlines the ways in which multiple protest issues have begun to converge over three decades, producing an anti‐nuclear groundswell that has been institutionalised through the Green and Alternative parties. The cumulative impact …
Gender, HipHop and Pop-Islam: The urban identities of Muslim youth in Germany
While many opponents construe the growing presence of Muslim headscarves in Germany as evidence of creeping Islamicization, religious activism can also be interpreted as an attempt on the part of migrant offspring to forge positive ‘hyphenated identities’, rooted in urban culture, material consumption, and specific mosque communities. Islam has become ‘young, chic and cool’ among ethnic minorities, often denied citizenship and opportunity in thei…
Girl Power, Mainstreaming and Critical Mass: Women's Leadership and Policy Paradigm Shift in Germany's Red-Green Coalition, 1998–20021
Women's increased presence in German government since 1998 testifies to generational change, as well as to the completion of a gender-specific "long march through the institutions." Securing more than 30% of the Bundestag seats, female lawmakers also reached critical mass in the Red-Green Cabinet, a coalition of the Social Democratic and Green Parties formed in 1998. This study of ministerial feminism, 1998–2002, shows that women are making a dif…
Citizenship and migration policies under Merkel's Grand Coalition
Mindful of Germany's looming demographic deficit and its likely consequences for the national economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel has embraced the fact that Germany is a land of immigration, in stark contrast to other CDU/CSU stalwarts. Assuming power shortly after the enactment of a new Citizenship Law (2000) and the passage of the country's first real immigration cum integration law (2004), Merkel has introduced a pro-active strategy for integrat…
Thinking Globally, Integrating Locally: Gender, Entrepreneurship and Urban Citizenship in Germany
Germany's refusal to pursue active integration policies for three decades has unleashed surprising do-it-yourself-integration processes among migrant communities, as demonstrated by dramatic changes in the Turkish ethnic economy since 1990. This study embeds these developments in an analytical framework linking economic enclaves and urban citizenship. Initially motivated by structural unemployment and social exclusion, guestworkers and their offs…
Kan-di(e)-dat
Angela Merkel's four national election campaigns offer a unique opportunity to explore the salience of gender in defining "competent leadership" in unified Germany. Women-friendly themes were deliberately avoided by the candidate and her party during her first two campaigns, but Merkel's personal popularity rendered gender a positive asset during her third run for the Chancellorship in 2013. The 2017 campaign accorded new salience to gender as an…
German Unification as a Catalyst for Change: Linking Political Transformation at the Domestic and International Levels
Fundamental social, political and economic changes that have taken hold in the Federal Republic since 1990 have undermined the idea of a single master narrative setting the course for unification. This special issue links processes of national transformation to a wide array of domestic, supranational and global developments, highlighting the long-term impact of unification on policy domains often neglected during earlier stages of analysis. At is…
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Angela Merkel, the Grand Coalition, and "Majority Rule" in Germany
Angela Merkel has not only been repeatedly ranked "the world's most powerful woman;" she is also the only German chancellor since 1949 to have successfully led her party to a "normal" victory after a full term heading a grand coalition from 2005-2009. Merkel's ability to lead has been shaped by the dynamics of coalition politics, proportional representation, and German federalism. Perceived as a more successful leader under an exceptional grand c…
Rethinking Citizenship and Identity: What it Means to be German’ since the Fall of the Wall
Twenty years after the Wall's collapse, East and West Germans have yet to achieve a sense of ‘inner unity’. To forge a common national identity not only among those citizens but also among Germans of migrant descent, policy-makers need to grasp the ways in which their respective identity trajectories have diverged over four decades. This article revisits western, eastern and ‘foreigner’ identities prior to 1989; it examines changing opportunity s…
Memory and the Holocaust: Processing the past through a gendered lens
Viewed through the prism of gender, race and generational change, memories of the Holocaust acquire a dynamic and a salience that differ substantially from one group to the next. This article examines the role of gender in sustaining and reconfiguring such memories in Germany; it argues that female victims and perpetrators are moving towards common ground in processing Second World War experiences as they anticipate their own deaths. Ranging from…
The rise of Femi‐Nazis? Female participation in right‐extremist movements in unified Germany
German feminist scholars have recently come to argue that female involvement in right‐extremist causes is grounded in gender‐specific motives. They have also begun to uncover a troubling link between new patterns of female political engagement (ranging from electoral mobilisation to violent streetfighting) and their own efforts to promote an independent women's consciousness since the 1960s. This article develops a typology of New Right women, ch…
Grassroots and Gewaltfreie Aktionen: A Study of Mass Mobilization Strategies in the West German Peace Movement
The West German peace movement of the eighties has been subject to many of the 'ebbs and flows' cha racteristic of protest movements of the late sixties and early seventies, with one important exception. In contrast to the more doctrinaire Marxist/socialist orientations evinced by those earlier movements, the mobilization against the deployment of Pershing II and cruise missiles has been grounded in sincere ef forts on the part of core activists …
Up the Down Staircase: Redefining Gender Identities through Migration and Ethnic Employment in Germany
Reflecting complex migration dynamics, gender often determines ‘who stays, who moves, where, why, how often’—and what they do once they get there. Comprising 46 per cent of Germany's ‘foreign-born’ residents, women can no longer be discounted as merely family dependents; however, this is only half the battle regarding their struggles for occupational opportunity. This study explores the experiences of five migrant groups, each of which has underg…
Concession or compromise? The politics of abortion in United Germany
Most GDR policies instituted to secure women's equality between 1949 and 1989 have been dismantled in the name of German unity, including freedom of choice regarding abortion. That right ceased to exist in May 1993, when the Constitutional Court imposed a number of western restrictions on eastern women as the new law of the land. This study addresses the post‐unity search for an acceptable compromise between the western constitutional mandate of …
Reflections on the Institutionalization of Protest: The West German Peace Movements
Massive demonstrations occurring in the Federal Republic of Germany in opposition to the deployment of Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles are rooted in a thirty-year tradition of peace protest. Protest experiences acquired during the campaign against German rearmament and the early deployment of tactical nuclear missiles in the 1950s fused with those gleaned by student activists in the 1960s and environmentalists in the 1970s. Protes…
The Politics of Small Steps: Angela Merkel's Transformative Impact on Germany and the European Union
A funny thing happened on the way to the mosque: Promoting Civil Society and Religious Pluralism Through Local Conflict
Understood primarily as a meta-narrative reflecting citizens' reluctance to accept migration and Islam as permanent components of their society, grass-roots protests against mosque construction also highlight a democratic paradox regarding multi-level governance: while national governments bear chief responsibility for ensuring fundamental religious freedoms, local authorization procedures affecting mosque construction (e.g. zoning, building perm…
Educating for Citizenship? Re-Assessing the Role of Islamic Instruction in German Schools
Positing a “clash of cultures,” many European politicians oppose Muslim headscarves as well as Islamic instruction in public schools; the real source of “failed integration” lies not with the religiosity of young Muslims but rather with an arcane definition of “state neutrality” that sustains the dominance of some religions at the expense of others. Focusing on Germany, this study reviews educational statistics pertaining to youth of migrant orig…
From Ausländer to Inlander: The Changing Faces of Citizenship in Post-Wall Germany
From its founding in 1949 through the dramatic events of 1989/90, the Federal Republic relied on a concept of "blood-based" citizenship (jus sanguinis), hoping to sustain ties between the peoples of the divided nation, as well as to protect "co-ethnic" groups scattered throughout historically defined eastern territories. Geographical reconfiguration, generational change and globalization processes have rendered Germany's insistence on an ethno-na…
A Spectre Haunting Europe
Germany’s 2017 elections marked the first time since 1949 that a far-right party with neo-Nazi adherents crossed the 5 percent threshold, entering the Bundestag. Securing nearly 13 percent of the vote, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) impeded Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ability to pull together a sustainable national coalition for nearly six months. Violating long-standing partisan taboos, the AfD “victory” is a weak reflection of national-populi…
Trading Places: Securitising Refugee and Asylum Policies in Germany and the United States
Given their radically different historical approaches to immigration and refugees, one would expect Germany and the United States to have adopted diverging policies in these domains following the '9/11' attacks. More surprising is the extent to which they have 'traded places' regarding their respective 'leadiator' and 'laggard' roles concerning asylum rights. Although both countries embraced restrictive practices during the 1980s, US law now conc…
Die Lehrjahre sind vorbei! Re-Forming Democratic Interest Groups in the East German Länder
Between 1972 and 1986, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) witnessed the rise of an underground civil society which gradually impelled the collapse of the socialist regime, opening the door to political freedom. Following unification, new elites eliminated 90 mass organisations that had served as the mainstay of GDR community interaction, presuming that a common institutional framework would soon allow Germans 'who belonged together to grow toge…
Reflections on the Institutionalization of Protest: The West German Peace Movements
Massive demonstrations occurring in the Federal Republic of Germany in opposition to the deployment of Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles are rooted in a thirty-year tradition of peace protest. Protest experiences acquired during the campaign against German rearmament and the early deployment of tactical nuclear missiles in the 1950s fused with those gleaned by student activists in the 1960s and environmentalists in the 1970s. Protes…
Innocence Lost: Environmental Images and Political Experiences Among the West German Greens
Cycles of peace protest in West Germany: Experiences from three decades
This article assesses the degree of continuity presumed to exist between West German opposition movements of the 1950s and 1960s, and peace protests of the 1970s and 1980s. It explores the concept of protest 'cycles' and outlines the ways in which multiple protest issues have begun to converge over three decades, producing an anti‐nuclear groundswell that has been institutionalised through the Green and Alternative parties. The cumulative impact …
The Changing Structure & Function of Party: The Case of the West German Left
The Greens in West Germany have taken on the role of "fundamental opposition" the SPD performed before it entered the government in 1966. But they have also been able to generate policy initiatives, calculated to meet the demands and pressures of a changing demographic and economic environment, at the same time that they have reawakened citizen interest in the democratic process. Professor Mushaben argues here that even though the "Left" in West …
Grassroots and Gewaltfreie Aktionen: A Study of Mass Mobilization Strategies in the West German Peace Movement
The West German peace movement of the eighties has been subject to many of the 'ebbs and flows' cha racteristic of protest movements of the late sixties and early seventies, with one important exception. In contrast to the more doctrinaire Marxist/socialist orientations evinced by those earlier movements, the mobilization against the deployment of Pershing II and cruise missiles has been grounded in sincere ef forts on the part of core activists …
A Search for Identity: The “German Question” in Atlantic Alliance Relations
Major changes in the postwar global environment have transformed “the” German question into many German questions that continue to complicate the foreign and domestic policy-making processes in the Federal Republic. Inconsistencies between official policy pronouncements and the accepted political modus operandi are explainable in terms of four “paradoxes”: (1) the nation/state identity paradox; (2) the reunification/integration paradox; (3) the s…
Equality Politics and Gender . Elizabeth Meehan , Selma Sevenhuijsen Gender and International Relations . Rebecca Grant , Kathleen Newland Modern Political Theory and Contemporary Feminism: A Dialecti…
The rise of Femi‐Nazis? Female participation in right‐extremist movements in unified Germany
German feminist scholars have recently come to argue that female involvement in right‐extremist causes is grounded in gender‐specific motives. They have also begun to uncover a troubling link between new patterns of female political engagement (ranging from electoral mobilisation to violent streetfighting) and their own efforts to promote an independent women's consciousness since the 1960s. This article develops a typology of New Right women, ch…
Concession or compromise? The politics of abortion in United Germany
Most GDR policies instituted to secure women's equality between 1949 and 1989 have been dismantled in the name of German unity, including freedom of choice regarding abortion. That right ceased to exist in May 1993, when the Constitutional Court imposed a number of western restrictions on eastern women as the new law of the land. This study addresses the post‐unity search for an acceptable compromise between the western constitutional mandate of …
From Post-War to Post-Wall Generations: Changing Attitudes toward the National Question and Nato in the Federal Republic of Germany
Die Lehrjahre sind vorbei! Re-Forming Democratic Interest Groups in the East German Länder
Between 1972 and 1986, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) witnessed the rise of an underground civil society which gradually impelled the collapse of the socialist regime, opening the door to political freedom. Following unification, new elites eliminated 90 mass organisations that had served as the mainstay of GDR community interaction, presuming that a common institutional framework would soon allow Germans 'who belonged together to grow toge…
Memory and the Holocaust: Processing the past through a gendered lens
Viewed through the prism of gender, race and generational change, memories of the Holocaust acquire a dynamic and a salience that differ substantially from one group to the next. This article examines the role of gender in sustaining and reconfiguring such memories in Germany; it argues that female victims and perpetrators are moving towards common ground in processing Second World War experiences as they anticipate their own deaths. Ranging from…
Girl Power, Mainstreaming and Critical Mass: Women's Leadership and Policy Paradigm Shift in Germany's Red-Green Coalition, 1998–20021
Women's increased presence in German government since 1998 testifies to generational change, as well as to the completion of a gender-specific "long march through the institutions." Securing more than 30% of the Bundestag seats, female lawmakers also reached critical mass in the Red-Green Cabinet, a coalition of the Social Democratic and Green Parties formed in 1998. This study of ministerial feminism, 1998–2002, shows that women are making a dif…
G irl P ower and G ender M ainstreaming: L ooking for P eace in N ew P laces T hrough a E uropean U nion L ens
For most EU members, Old Europe died as a consequence of processes linked to French–German reconciliation, détente with the Warsaw Pact states, the decline of ultranationalism, and the onset of nuclear disarmament. They have embraced a concept of peace implying much more than “the absence of war.” The United States still has much to learn about peace, as illustrated by women‐driven policies in both the European Union and Germany. Adopted at the U…
Thinking Globally, Integrating Locally: Gender, Entrepreneurship and Urban Citizenship in Germany
Germany's refusal to pursue active integration policies for three decades has unleashed surprising do-it-yourself-integration processes among migrant communities, as demonstrated by dramatic changes in the Turkish ethnic economy since 1990. This study embeds these developments in an analytical framework linking economic enclaves and urban citizenship. Initially motivated by structural unemployment and social exclusion, guestworkers and their offs…
Coming to Terms with the Past and Present: Memory, Gender and German Studies
Clearly a ‘founding member’ among German Studies scholars, Eva Kolinsky pursued an extraordinary array of topics, most of which drew on interdisciplinary research methods. This essay attempts to situate a limited number of her contributions in this ever evolving scholarly domain, emphasising the ‘past’, ‘present’ and ‘future’ dimensions of that work. It offers a brief introduction to subsequent essays comprising this commemorative volume, indicat…
The Changing Faces of Citizenship: Social integration and political mobilization among ethnic minorities in Germany
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 prese…
Birgit Locher, Trafficking in the European Union. Norms, Advocacy-Networks and Policy-Change (Wiesbaden: (VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2007), 440 pp
Gender, HipHop and Pop-Islam: The urban identities of Muslim youth in Germany
While many opponents construe the growing presence of Muslim headscarves in Germany as evidence of creeping Islamicization, religious activism can also be interpreted as an attempt on the part of migrant offspring to forge positive ‘hyphenated identities’, rooted in urban culture, material consumption, and specific mosque communities. Islam has become ‘young, chic and cool’ among ethnic minorities, often denied citizenship and opportunity in thei…
Up the Down Staircase: Redefining Gender Identities through Migration and Ethnic Employment in Germany
Reflecting complex migration dynamics, gender often determines ‘who stays, who moves, where, why, how often’—and what they do once they get there. Comprising 46 per cent of Germany's ‘foreign-born’ residents, women can no longer be discounted as merely family dependents; however, this is only half the battle regarding their struggles for occupational opportunity. This study explores the experiences of five migrant groups, each of which has underg…
Lieber gleich berechtigt als später! Comparing Women’s Rights in the United States and Germany
Rethinking Citizenship and Identity: What it Means to be German’ since the Fall of the Wall
Twenty years after the Wall's collapse, East and West Germans have yet to achieve a sense of ‘inner unity’. To forge a common national identity not only among those citizens but also among Germans of migrant descent, policy-makers need to grasp the ways in which their respective identity trajectories have diverged over four decades. This article revisits western, eastern and ‘foreigner’ identities prior to 1989; it examines changing opportunity s…
Educating for Citizenship? Re-Assessing the Role of Islamic Instruction in German Schools
Positing a “clash of cultures,” many European politicians oppose Muslim headscarves as well as Islamic instruction in public schools; the real source of “failed integration” lies not with the religiosity of young Muslims but rather with an arcane definition of “state neutrality” that sustains the dominance of some religions at the expense of others. Focusing on Germany, this study reviews educational statistics pertaining to youth of migrant orig…
From Ausländer to Inlander: The Changing Faces of Citizenship in Post-Wall Germany
From its founding in 1949 through the dramatic events of 1989/90, the Federal Republic relied on a concept of "blood-based" citizenship (jus sanguinis), hoping to sustain ties between the peoples of the divided nation, as well as to protect "co-ethnic" groups scattered throughout historically defined eastern territories. Geographical reconfiguration, generational change and globalization processes have rendered Germany's insistence on an ethno-na…
Citizenship and migration policies under Merkel's Grand Coalition
Mindful of Germany's looming demographic deficit and its likely consequences for the national economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel has embraced the fact that Germany is a land of immigration, in stark contrast to other CDU/CSU stalwarts. Assuming power shortly after the enactment of a new Citizenship Law (2000) and the passage of the country's first real immigration cum integration law (2004), Merkel has introduced a pro-active strategy for integrat…
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