Harald Bauder
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harald Bauder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harald |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauder |
| SIGNATURE | BAUDER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7249-8325 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 661 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection - Volume 2: Global Perspectives of Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Hospitality
This open access book offers the first comprehensive global overview of urban and local initiatives, policies, and practices towards including and protecting migrants in vulnerable situations and refugees. The chapters in this volume illustrate the various urban solidarity practices in different world regions, while highlighting important differences arising from geographical, political, geopolitical, economic and demographic contexts. The volume…
Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection - Volume 1: Frontiers of Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Hospitality
This open access book, the first of two volumes, offers novel insights into the resilience of migrants and refugees and challenges Eurocentric and colonial perspectives of urban solidarity, sanctuary, and hospitality. It is theoretically framed by critical perspectives on the state and anti-colonialism, histories of urban solidarity, practices of solidarity and estrangement, and geographical perspectives of scale and space. The volume also advanc…
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance
The Westphalian concept of sovereignty frames international relations and law. Since the 2007 UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the notion of Indigenous sovereignty has also entered international political debate. In this article, we examine the underlying premise of Westphalian and Indigenous sovereignties. A scoping review of the literature reveals that Westphalian sovereignty is a Eurocentric concept implicated in the colonia…
Was ist urban: Beitrag zur Debatte „Was ist Stadt? Was ist Kritik?“
„Urbanität“ ist ein epistemologischer Begriff, der keine zugrunde liegende Essenz besitzt. Aus geographischer Perspektive interpretiere ich diesen Begriff – grob anlehnend an Henry Lefebvres Arbeit zu Raum (Lefebvre 1991) – in verschiedener Weise. „Urban“ kann einen administrativen Raum beschreiben, der durch die territorialen Grenzen einer Stadtverwaltung bestimmt ist. Zum Beispiel definieren Stadtverwaltungen in New York, Berlin oder Toronto ih…
From Sovereignty to Solidarity: Rethinking Human Migration
From Sovereignty to Solidarity seeks to re-imagine human mobility in ways that are de-linked from national sovereignty. Using examples from around the world, the author examines contemporary practices of solidarity to illustrate what such a conceptualization of human mobility looks like. He suggests that urban and local scales, rather than the national scale, is a better way to frame human migration and belonging. The book ultimately proposes tha…
Ciudades santuario y solidarias en América Latina: Una revisión de literatura
The literature on urban sanctuary and solidarity in the context of the Global North is robust and rapidly expanding. However, there remains a gap in the literature regarding how these concepts may apply to the Global South. To address this gap, we conducted a scoping review of academic and grey literature on urban sanctuary and solidarity policies and practices in Latin America. We focus on the connection between top-down urban policies and botto…
Solidarity' in the migration and refugee literature: Analysis of a Concept
The concept of solidarity has a long history in the social sciences and humanities, and has received considerable attention in recent migration and refugee scholarship. However, there is no consistent definition of or approach to this concept in this literature. Rather, various types of solidarity with different philosophical underpinnings coexist. In this article, we draw on existing solidarity scholarship to develop a typology of the concept of…
Index
Introduction – Sanctuary cities and urban struggles: Rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights
This chapter introduces the main focus of the book, and discusses a range of current work exploring debates on migration, citizenship, and rights focused on sub-national spatial scales, including the urban, the neighbourhood, and the spaces of everyday life. The introduction thus examines some of the ways in which migration is experienced, politicised, and policed when framed as a concern for cities, communities, and everyday life, rather than pu…
Urban sanctuary in context
Sanctuary cities exemplify the rescaling of citizenship, community, and belonging. This chapter sets the stage for the book by exploring urban sanctuary practices and policies in different countries. Drawing on the USA, the UK, and Canada the chapter shows how sanctuary policies and practices aim to accommodate illegalised migrants and refugees in urban communities. The concept of the ‘sanctuary city’, however, is highly ambiguous: it refers to a…
Putting Family First: Migration and Integration in Canada
When migrants reach their new home, we often interpret their settlement and integration as an individual process driven largely by the labour market. But family plays a crucial role. Putting Family First is the fruit of a four-year academic–community partnership to investigate the experience of immigrant families settling in Greater Toronto. Contributors explore the integration trajectory of immigrant families, from newcomers’ initial reception t…
Migrant solidarities and the politics of place
International migration and refugee scholars have made extensive use of the concept of solidarity in light of the recent arrival of migrants and refugees in Europe and elsewhere. They observe multi-dimensional solidarity practices and interpret solidarity from a variety of disciplinary and conceptual angles with different philosophical underpinnings. In this review article, I assume a geographical perspective to argue for a Marxian-Hegelian under…
Sanctuary cities and urban struggles: Rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights
From Utopia to Possibilia
The contradiction between territorial citizenship and human mobility is impossible to resolve theoretically within the framework of political territoriality. Contradiction, however, is a productive moment in the ongoing dialectic towards freedom, equality, and justice. If the domicile principle were adopted globally, then migrants would always and only possess the citizenship of the jurisdiction in which they actually reside. Domicile-based citiz…
Borders in Perspective
Sanctuary City
Critics may say that activists and scholars contradict themselves when they simultaneously pursue contingent possibilities and possibilia. It is inconsistent, they may argue, to ask the nation state to accommodate migrants by granting them domicile citizenship and simultaneously chip away at the state’s legitimacy to grant or deny rights to migrants. Critical scholars are well aware that the very concept of the migrant is a construct of internati…
Conclusion
A few years ago, when I presented some of the ideas for this book to my colleague, the political scientist Fabian Georgi, he commented that my critique of borders and migration provides a view into a narrow “crack, a fissure, which can be pried open to show the inhumanity of the whole system and the need to radically change it.” He is right. The infringement on individual freedom, the injustice and oppression, and the denial of a future that bord…
Borders in Perspective
In this chapter, the author explores their arguments and the different paths they are taking to arrive at the same conclusion: that borders should be open. He explains on the idea that borders and cross-border migration can be approached from different angles, narrowing author focus to arguments that support “open borders.” The European Union’s Schengen Area is an example of open borders being implemented because it was seen as politically feasib…
Right to the Future
We strongly believe that none of us are free until all of us are free.
Access Denied!
The open-borders imagination thus affirms the territorial nature of governance, while a no-border imagination eliminates nation states and their borders altogether. This chapter explains the prospects of open borders and no border into dialog with each other. Conversely, the imagination of a world with open borders or without borders is often labeled “utopian.” Commentators typically use this label to dismiss the open-borders and no-border ideas …
Sanctuary City
Mobility and Domicile
Scholars and political activists are keenly aware that the process of identity formation lies at the heart of societal transformation. For Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, revolution required that the urban working class realizes that it constitutes a political force. Unlike the proletariat of the 19th century, however, illegalized migrants are not a distinct class but a part of a larger social formation consisting of persons experiencing various …
Migration Policy and Practice: Interventions and Solutions
Building on contemporary efforts to theorize conflicts related to borders, migration, and belonging, this book transforms existing analyses in order to propose critical interventions. The chapters are
Migration Borders Freedom
International borders have become deadly barriers of a proportion rivaled only by war or natural disaster. Yet despite the damage created by borders, most people can't - or don't want to - imagine a world without them. What alternatives do we have to prevent the deadly results of contemporary borders? In today's world, national citizenship determines a person's ability to migrate across borders. Migration Borders Freedom questions that premise. R…
Perspectives of Open Borders and No Border
With globalization, the flows of goods, capital, and information across international borders have liberalized. However, the mobility of people across these same borders is still highly controlled. In fact, borders remain a main source not only of labour inefficiencies, but also of human suffering and injustices. These circumstances have prompted scholars to call for open borders for people and for no border. In this article, I review the various…
Brain Abuse”, or the Devaluation of Immigrant Labour in Canada
Many professional and skilled Canadian immigrants suffer from de‐skilling and the nonrecognition of their foreign credentials. Consequently, they are underrepresented in the upper segments of the Canadian labour market. Rather than accepting this devaluation of immigrant labour as a naturally occurring adjustment period, I suggest that regulatory institutions actively exclude immigrants from the upper segments of the labour market. In particular,…
Habitus, rules of the labour market and employment strategies of immigrants in Vancouver, Canada
Workplace conventions and hiring practices are barriers confronted by immigrants in the Canadian labour market. This paper considers these barriers in the context of Bourdieu's concept of habitus. The empirical research presented examines immigrants from South Asia and the former Yugoslavia in the labour market of Greater Vancouver. A statistical analysis of census data and immigrant landing records is supplemented by an analysis of interviews wi…
Sanctuary cities and urban struggles: Rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights
Culture in the labor market: Segmentation theory and perspectives of place
Labor market segmentation theory explains the economic marginalization of racial minorities, the working class and women. Economic geographers have contributed a perspective of spatial entrapment and spatially contingent job markets. In this article I emphasize supply-side processes and the role of these processes in labor market segmentation theory. In particular I focus on issues of cultural experience of place and cultural representation of pl…
Domicile citizenship, human mobility and territoriality
Formal citizenship often excludes migrants who were not born in the national territory in which they reside and/or were born to parents of foreign nationality. In this article, I explore how the domicile principle of citizenship can better accommodate migrants. Although this principle has a long history, it has only recently received significant attention among scholars. I examine the tensions between formal citizenship, mobility and territoriali…
Neighbourhood Effects and Cultural Exclusion
The idea of neighbourhood effects implies that the demographic context of poor neighbourhoods instills 'dysfunctional' norms, values and behaviours into youths, triggering a cycle of social pathology. It is argued that neighbourhood effects are part of a wider discourse of inner-city marginality that stereotypes inner-city neighbourhoods. Reflecting upon arguments made in the existing literature, the ideological underpinnings of the idea of neigh…
Assimilation and Exclusion of Foreign Trained Engineers in Canada: Inside a Professional Regulatory Organization
Professional labour markets in Ontario, Canada, are culturally regulated to the disadvantage of foreign‐born and foreign‐trained immigrant practitioners. In this paper we draw on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of institutionalized cultural capital and habitus to examine processes of distinction between foreign and Canadian‐trained professionals. Based on fieldwork investigating Ontario's professional engineering regulatory system as a case study, we …
Landscape and scale in media representations: The construction of offshore farm labour in Ontario, Canada
Thousands of migrant workers travel from Mexico and the Caribbean to Ontario every year to assist Canadian farmers in their horticulture operations. These migrants have become a structural necessity to the industry, ensuring growth and profits. I propose that exploitative and coercive labour practices are legitimated and sustained through cultural representations which identify migrants not only as outsiders to the community and a cultural threat…
Migrant solidarities and the politics of place
International migration and refugee scholars have made extensive use of the concept of solidarity in light of the recent arrival of migrants and refugees in Europe and elsewhere. They observe multi-dimensional solidarity practices and interpret solidarity from a variety of disciplinary and conceptual angles with different philosophical underpinnings. In this review article, I assume a geographical perspective to argue for a Marxian-Hegelian under…
Solidarity' in the migration and refugee literature: Analysis of a Concept
The concept of solidarity has a long history in the social sciences and humanities, and has received considerable attention in recent migration and refugee scholarship. However, there is no consistent definition of or approach to this concept in this literature. Rather, various types of solidarity with different philosophical underpinnings coexist. In this article, we draw on existing solidarity scholarship to develop a typology of the concept of…
Residential segregation of visible minorities in Canada's gateway cities
Although the influx of visible minority immigrants has created an atmosphere of diversity and multicultural‐ism in Canada's three major gateway cities, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, immigration has also produced metropolitan landscapes of fragmentation and ethnic separation. The objective of this study is to compare the residential patterns of visible minority populations in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, using a rigorous and consistent meth…
Migration Borders Freedom
International borders have become deadly barriers of a proportion rivaled only by war or natural disaster. Yet despite the damage created by borders, most people can't - or don't want to - imagine a world without them. What alternatives do we have to prevent the deadly results of contemporary borders? In today's world, national citizenship determines a person's ability to migrate across borders. Migration Borders Freedom questions that premise. R…
Media Discourse and the New German Immigration Law
Between 2001 and 2004, an initially innovative proposal of a German immigration law was transformed into a rather conservative piece of legislation. This paper systematically analyses media discourse during this period. A content analysis of five prominent German newspapers reveals that media attention to the issue of immigration in the context of the new law fluctuated considerably and that different models of argumentation were mobilised in dif…
Foreign farm workers in Ontario (Canada): Exclusionary discourse in the newsprint media
Seasonal offshore labour from Mexico and the Caribbean is a vital element in the horticulture industry of Ontario, Canada. The offshore programme run by the government regulates the recruitment of foreign workers into a seemingly feudal labour regime. It is argued here that media discourse about foreign workers plays an important role in generating public consent for this regime. An analysis of the daily newsprint media reveals several co-existin…
Neoliberalism and the Economic Utility of Immigration: Media Perspectives of Germany's Immigration Law
Germany's new immigration law, which took effect in 2005, was hotly debated over a period of four years. This paper follows the debate on the law through the newsprint media, examines the representation of immigration as an economic utility, and investigates the contents of this economic‐utility perspective of immigration in light of neoliberal restructuring in Germany. The analysis focuses on 609 articles sampled from five major German daily new…
Origin, employment status and attitudes towards work: Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada
It is often implied in academic and public debate that non-immigrants and immigrants of various origin harbour different attitudes towards work. To examine whether these differences relate to men and women's origin, labour market status, and length of time living at the place of settlement, an interview survey of 509 individuals was conducted in a predominantly Chinese-speaking neighbourhood, a Punjabi-speaking area and an English-speaking neighb…
Toward a Critical Geography of the Border: Engaging the Dialectic of Practice and Meaning
Recent scholarship has pointed out the multidimensional character of national borders and the implausibility of the border as a single and coherent concept. In this article, I build on this scholarship as I discuss how geographers can critically engage in the dialectic of the border concept. To develop this argument, I review some of the existing literature on the concept of the border and cross-border migration and suggest that various material …
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance
The Westphalian concept of sovereignty frames international relations and law. Since the 2007 UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the notion of Indigenous sovereignty has also entered international political debate. In this article, we examine the underlying premise of Westphalian and Indigenous sovereignties. A scoping review of the literature reveals that Westphalian sovereignty is a Eurocentric concept implicated in the colonia…
Immigrants in the Labour Market: Transnationalism and Segmentation
Various theories speak towards the labour market segmentation of an immigrant workforce. Theoretical frameworks such as Dual Labour Market Theory or Hierarchy Theory provide some value in outlining why immigrants are often found in the least desirable forms of employment. However, most theories do not consider the phenomenon of immigrant transnationalism and how forces at multiple scales shape labour market trajectories. In this paper we argue th…
The Private Sector, Institutions of Higher Education, and Immigrant Settlement in Canada
Learning to Become a Geographer: Reproduction and Transformation in Academia
Critical Geographies introduces students, scholars and activists to wide-ranging approaches, topics and theories associated with critical geographical scholarship. A selection of thirty-six chapters of previously published work, spanning over 150 years, is organized into four thematic sections with editorial introductions, addressing the themes of critical reflection within academic geography, theorizing the relationship between space and society…
You're Good with your Hands, Why Don't You Become an Auto Mechanic: Neighborhood Context, Institutions and Career Development
Previous research has linked sociodemographic neighborhood characteristics with labor market outcomes for youth, but this research has provided little evidence of how these linkages work. In this article I examine practices of urban institutions and the career development of inner-city minority youth in the United States. A comparative study of two Latino inner-city neighborhoods in San Antonio, Texas, analyzes in-depth interviews with seventeen …
Immigration and Imagination of Nationhood in the German Parliament
Immigration policy and debate can reveal how a nation imagines itself. This study examines the dialectic between immigration and German nationhood in the context of the parliamentary debates between 2002 and 2006. Contents and discourse analyses of transcripts of the Bundestag were supplemented with interviews with policymakers. Our interpretation of the data reveals two distinct narratives: that Muslim immigration is a threat to the democratic o…
Dialectics of Humanitarian Immigration and National Identity in Canadian Public Discourse
Humanitarian immigration is an important element in the construction of Canada’s identity as a liberal and compassionate country. Drawing on Hegelian dialectics, a discourse analysis of newspaper articles published between 1996 and 2001 examines processes of national identity formation through humanitarian immigration in the media. My interpretation of this discourse suggests that Canada’s national identity is constructed on the basis of material…
Work, young people and neighbourhood representations
Extending ideas of social exclusion and cultural modelling, I demonstrate that work identities of young inner-city men and women are shaped by cultural representations of the neighbourhood. I explore, in particular, the internal and external representations of culture and neighbourhoods, and the relationship between the two forms of representation. Empirical research focuses on two inner-city neighbourhoods of San Antonio, Texas. I present data f…
Culture in the labor market: Segmentation theory and perspectives of place
Labor market segmentation theory explains the economic marginalization of racial minorities, the working class and women. Economic geographers have contributed a perspective of spatial entrapment and spatially contingent job markets. In this article I emphasize supply-side processes and the role of these processes in labor market segmentation theory. In particular I focus on issues of cultural experience of place and cultural representation of pl…
Agency, place, scale: Representations of inner‐city youth identities
Geographers are in a special position to comment on the role of neighbourhood representations in the marginalisation of urban minorities. This paper examines the impact of representations of place on the production of inner‐city youth identities. It argues that the spatial scale of representation is a crucial element in the production of marginal identity, and investigates whether switching scale is a viable option for escaping this identity. Lin…
You're Good with your Hands, Why Don't You Become an Auto Mechanic: Neighborhood Context, Institutions and Career Development
Previous research has linked sociodemographic neighborhood characteristics with labor market outcomes for youth, but this research has provided little evidence of how these linkages work. In this article I examine practices of urban institutions and the career development of inner-city minority youth in the United States. A comparative study of two Latino inner-city neighborhoods in San Antonio, Texas, analyzes in-depth interviews with seventeen …
Work, young people and neighbourhood representations
Extending ideas of social exclusion and cultural modelling, I demonstrate that work identities of young inner-city men and women are shaped by cultural representations of the neighbourhood. I explore, in particular, the internal and external representations of culture and neighbourhoods, and the relationship between the two forms of representation. Empirical research focuses on two inner-city neighbourhoods of San Antonio, Texas. I present data f…
Neighbourhood Effects and Cultural Exclusion
The idea of neighbourhood effects implies that the demographic context of poor neighbourhoods instills 'dysfunctional' norms, values and behaviours into youths, triggering a cycle of social pathology. It is argued that neighbourhood effects are part of a wider discourse of inner-city marginality that stereotypes inner-city neighbourhoods. Reflecting upon arguments made in the existing literature, the ideological underpinnings of the idea of neigh…
Residential segregation of visible minorities in Canada's gateway cities
Although the influx of visible minority immigrants has created an atmosphere of diversity and multicultural‐ism in Canada's three major gateway cities, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, immigration has also produced metropolitan landscapes of fragmentation and ethnic separation. The objective of this study is to compare the residential patterns of visible minority populations in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, using a rigorous and consistent meth…
Cultural representations of immigrant workers by service providers and employers
Brain Abuse”, or the Devaluation of Immigrant Labour in Canada
Many professional and skilled Canadian immigrants suffer from de‐skilling and the nonrecognition of their foreign credentials. Consequently, they are underrepresented in the upper segments of the Canadian labour market. Rather than accepting this devaluation of immigrant labour as a naturally occurring adjustment period, I suggest that regulatory institutions actively exclude immigrants from the upper segments of the labour market. In particular,…
Attitudes toward work: Ethnic minorities and immigrant groups in Vancouver
Habitus, rules of the labour market and employment strategies of immigrants in Vancouver, Canada
Workplace conventions and hiring practices are barriers confronted by immigrants in the Canadian labour market. This paper considers these barriers in the context of Bourdieu's concept of habitus. The empirical research presented examines immigrants from South Asia and the former Yugoslavia in the labour market of Greater Vancouver. A statistical analysis of census data and immigrant landing records is supplemented by an analysis of interviews wi…
Landscape and scale in media representations: The construction of offshore farm labour in Ontario, Canada
Thousands of migrant workers travel from Mexico and the Caribbean to Ontario every year to assist Canadian farmers in their horticulture operations. These migrants have become a structural necessity to the industry, ensuring growth and profits. I propose that exploitative and coercive labour practices are legitimated and sustained through cultural representations which identify migrants not only as outsiders to the community and a cultural threat…
Labor Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets
Throughout the industrialized world, international migrants serve as nannies, construction workers, gardeners and small-business entrepreneurs. Labor Movement suggests that the international migration of workers is necessary for the survival of industrialized economies. The book thus turns the conventional view of international migration on its head: it investigates how migration regulates labor markets, rather than labor markets shaping migratio…
Learning to Become a Geographer: Reproduction and Transformation in Academia
Critical Geographies introduces students, scholars and activists to wide-ranging approaches, topics and theories associated with critical geographical scholarship. A selection of thirty-six chapters of previously published work, spanning over 150 years, is organized into four thematic sections with editorial introductions, addressing the themes of critical reflection within academic geography, theorizing the relationship between space and society…
And the Flag Waved On: Immigrants Protest, Geographers Meet in Chicago
Origin, employment status and attitudes towards work: Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada
It is often implied in academic and public debate that non-immigrants and immigrants of various origin harbour different attitudes towards work. To examine whether these differences relate to men and women's origin, labour market status, and length of time living at the place of settlement, an interview survey of 509 individuals was conducted in a predominantly Chinese-speaking neighbourhood, a Punjabi-speaking area and an English-speaking neighb…
Assimilation and Exclusion of Foreign Trained Engineers in Canada: Inside a Professional Regulatory Organization
Professional labour markets in Ontario, Canada, are culturally regulated to the disadvantage of foreign‐born and foreign‐trained immigrant practitioners. In this paper we draw on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of institutionalized cultural capital and habitus to examine processes of distinction between foreign and Canadian‐trained professionals. Based on fieldwork investigating Ontario's professional engineering regulatory system as a case study, we …
The making of an ‘arcane’ infrastructure: Immigrant practitioners and the origins of professional engineering regulation in Ontario
Many immigrant professionals have difficulty securing the appropriate licenses required to practice their professions in Canada. Complex licensing procedures managed by professional regulatory institutions compose what a former federal immigration minister called an ‘arcane infrastructure’. This article draws on a discourse analysis of historical professional periodicals to investigate the origins of these institutions, using the regulated engine…
The Economic Case for Immigration: Neoliberal and Regulatory Paradigms in Canada’s Press
More recently, this model has been supplanted by a neoliberal, competitive strategy that seeks to attract immigrants with the skills needed to compete for jobs across the labour market. Harald Bauder’s analysis of the Canadian media discourse about immigration between 1996 and 2004 shows that both regulatory and competitive views of immigration are reflected therein, raising significant research questions concerning the relationship between the m…
Dialectics of Humanitarian Immigration and National Identity in Canadian Public Discourse
Humanitarian immigration is an important element in the construction of Canada’s identity as a liberal and compassionate country. Drawing on Hegelian dialectics, a discourse analysis of newspaper articles published between 1996 and 2001 examines processes of national identity formation through humanitarian immigration in the media. My interpretation of this discourse suggests that Canada’s national identity is constructed on the basis of material…
Neoliberalism and the Economic Utility of Immigration: Media Perspectives of Germany's Immigration Law
Germany's new immigration law, which took effect in 2005, was hotly debated over a period of four years. This paper follows the debate on the law through the newsprint media, examines the representation of immigration as an economic utility, and investigates the contents of this economic‐utility perspective of immigration in light of neoliberal restructuring in Germany. The analysis focuses on 609 articles sampled from five major German daily new…
Knowledge Grab: Corporate Appropriation and Exploitation of Academic Geographers
Media Discourse and the New German Immigration Law
Between 2001 and 2004, an initially innovative proposal of a German immigration law was transformed into a rather conservative piece of legislation. This paper systematically analyses media discourse during this period. A content analysis of five prominent German newspapers reveals that media attention to the issue of immigration in the context of the new law fluctuated considerably and that different models of argumentation were mobilised in dif…
Foreign farm workers in Ontario (Canada): Exclusionary discourse in the newsprint media
Seasonal offshore labour from Mexico and the Caribbean is a vital element in the horticulture industry of Ontario, Canada. The offshore programme run by the government regulates the recruitment of foreign workers into a seemingly feudal labour regime. It is argued here that media discourse about foreign workers plays an important role in generating public consent for this regime. An analysis of the daily newsprint media reveals several co-existin…
Humanitarian immigration and German national identity in the media
Immigration can be an important component in the formation of national identity. I draw on Hegelian dialectics to interpret media debate of the recent German immigration law and the role of humanitarian immigration in constructing Germany's national identity. A discourse analysis examines 609 articles published in five daily newspapers between 2001 and 2005. The media represents the German state as safeguarding human rights and international law,…
Immigration and Imagination of Nationhood in the German Parliament
Immigration policy and debate can reveal how a nation imagines itself. This study examines the dialectic between immigration and German nationhood in the context of the parliamentary debates between 2002 and 2006. Contents and discourse analyses of transcripts of the Bundestag were supplemented with interviews with policymakers. Our interpretation of the data reveals two distinct narratives: that Muslim immigration is a threat to the democratic o…
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