Immigration and Citizenship in Germany

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ID3606344
AuthorsRainer Münz (Humboldt University, corresponding author), R Ulrich (0000-0002-2535-402X, University of Bamberg)
Year1999
Volume17
Issue4
Pages1-33
Publication date1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGerman Politics & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-0300 • E-ISSN: 1558-5441
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/104503099782486761
OpenAlexW2064153215
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In Germany, as in many other European democracies, immigrationand citizenship are contested and contentious issues. In the Germancase it was both the magnitude of postwar and recent immigration aswell as its interference with questions of identity that created politicaland social conflict. As a result of World War II, the coexistenceof two German states, and the persistence of ethnic German minoritiesin central and eastern Europe, (West) Germany's migration andnaturalization policy was inclusive toward expellees, GDR citizens,and co-ethnics. At the same time, the Federal Republic of Germany,despite the recruitment of several million foreign labor migrantsand-until 1992-a relatively liberal asylum practice, did not developsimilar mechanisms and policies of absorption and integration of itslegal foreign residents

Citizenship · Development economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Federal republic · Geography · German · Immigration · Immigration policy · Naturalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · German History and Society · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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