Managing the National Status Group
Immigration Policy in Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9952872 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Elrick (McGill University Montreal Canada, corresponding author), Elke Winter (0000-0002-8942-3717, University of Ottawa Ottawa Canada) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 19-32 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Migration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/imig.12400 |
| OpenAlex | W2764032279 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 45 |
This article challenges the established convention in immigration policy scholarship of treating economic utility and identity maintenance as logically distinct concerns. Drawing on work by Weber, Wallerstein and Bourdieu, we argue that concerns about economic utility and identity maintenance interact in the immigration policies of Western liberal democratic states, leading to policies designed to build and maintain middle‐class national status groups. Using the example of contemporary immigration policy in Germany, we illustrate how this impulse to build the middle‐class status group affects immigrant inclusion/exclusion in nuanced ways at both the group and individual levels, along class/status, ethnic and gender lines. We conclude by considering the policy implications of growing and shaping populations according to middle‐class ideals, particularly for the statistical monitoring of immigrant populations for integration benchmarking purposes
Collective identity · Convention · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Immigration · Immigration policy · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Middle class · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Immigrants’ condition of expulsability
Immigration Policy and Gender of “Talent”
Neo-Ethnicisation of Citizenship
What Holds Multiculturalism Together? Shared Middle-Class Identity in Canada
The Meritorious ‘Other’
Integration Discourses, the Purification of Gender and Interventions in Family Migrations
Contesting policy categories using intersectionality
An intersectional pathway penalty
Social Class, Migration Policy and Migrant Strategies
Un geste d’hospitalité aux demandeurs d’asile
Classe sociale et contexte d'asile
Hierarchy in the Politics of Migration
Beyond the Economics Versus Culture Divide
Transnational migration and dual citizenship
Values or origin? Mandatory immigrant integration and immigration attitudes in Europe
Confronting or incorporating middle-class nation-building? Right-wing responses in the pan-Canadian context
Who gets to return? Party politics and the selectivity of European emigrant return policies
Discrimination and rights in German naturalization policy
The culture of official statistics. Symbolic domination and 'bourgeois' assimilation in quantitative measurements of immigrant integration in Germany
We Are That In-Between Nation
Young Refugees' Integration Trajectories-The Critical Role of Local Resources in Germany
Migration as a building bloc of middle-class nation-building? The growing rift between Germany's centre-right and right-wing parties
Neoliberal nationalism and immigration policy
Human-capital citizenship and the changing logic of immigrant admissions
Are golden visas a golden opportunity? Assessing the economic origins and outcomes of residence by investment programmes in the EU
Discrimination in migration and citizenship
Middle class by effort? Immigration, nation, and class from a transnational and intersectional perspective
Middle class nation building through immigration
Migration as conflict risk-management
Middle class nation building through a tenacious discourse on skills
Diversity assent
Getting a Job
Labor Movement
A Nation by Design
Economy and Society
The field of cultural production
Controlling immigration
Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education
Immigration Dialectic
Culling the Masses
Family‐related migration
Collecting ethnic statistics in Europe
Intersectionalizing European politics
Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity
Sorting or Shaping? The Gendered Economic Outcomes of Immigration Policy in Canada
The Emerging Migration State
Theorizing Migration Policy
Contemporary Immigration
The Power and Morals of Policy Makers
Reconsidering Migration and Class
Contemporary Immigration
Towards a Gendered Evaluation of (Highly) Skilled Immigration Policies in Europe
Working for Legality
Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, and Marital Selection
The Headscarf Debates
Race, nation, class
Intersectional Politics at the Boundaries of the Nation State
Skill, Migration and Gender in Australia and Canada
Controlling Immigration through Language and Country Knowledge Requirements
Cultural and Educational Careers
Hiring as Cultural Matching
Why Status Matters for Inequality
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Migration, Membership, and the Modern Nation-State
Regulating Membership
Hard Work for Love
Migrating Cultural Capital
Educational Assortative Marriage in Comparative Perspective
Secure borders and safe haven and the gendered politics of belonging
"The "migrant with poor prospects
Screening, Skills and Cultural Fit
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |