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No Country for Migrants? Critical Perspectives on Asylum, Immigration, and Integration in Germany aims to critically contribute to ongoing debates about immigration, integration, and xenophobia in Germany. Set against the backdrop of Germany's controversial political decision to open its borders to refugees in 2015, the book realigns this watershed with the broader historical narratives of migration to explain its exceptionality both as an event and transformative force on the migration/integration discourse. The book further uses critical theories to make sense of the shifting socio-political coordinates of Germany. It addresses the history of Germany's migration policies, its soft and hard power in migration control, language and societal integration, immigration and the revival of right-wing extremism, as well as religion and immigration.
Contents
Acknowledgements
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Introduction
1The 2015 German Refugee Crisis as an Event
1From Political to Metaphysical: Multiple Conceptualizations of the Event
2Syria: The Supernumerary of an Evental Site
3Undecidability and the Edge of the Void
4Interventional Gestures
5Transcendental Arrangements
2An Abbreviated History of Germany's Migration Discourses and Policies
1Historiographical Omissions and Sociological Exclusions
2Bismarck, Leutenot, and the Early Securitization of Migration
3Weber and the Empowerment of Nationalistic Audiences
4Of C2, 3P, and Muddling through: Regulating Securitized Migration
3Soft and Hard: Power, Asylum, and Germany
1Soft Power Meets Asylum
2The 'Objective' Soft Power of a Reluctant Hegemon
3The Duality of Soft Power on Asylum
4Hard and Economic Power in Migration Control
4On Language, Integration, and Pedagogy
1Language, Structuralist Linguistics, and Integration
2The Language Testing Regime and its Discontent
3Challenges in Acquiring German as a Second Language, and Integration
4Toward Radical Perspectives on the Pedagogy of Integration
5Civilization-Culture-Character: the Plateaus of the 'Clash Rhizome'
1Civilization in the Clash Rhizome
2The German Reception of the Clash of Civilizations
3Culture in the Clash Rhizome
4Character between Affects and Late Modernity and Capitalism
6The "Deep Story" of the Elder Son
1The Prodigal Son in the Biblical Narrative
2The Younger Son's Revolutionary Wager
3The Father and the Cost of Humanitarian Largesse
4Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and the 'Anger and Mourning' of the Elder Son
7'Muslim Girls' and 'Muslim Men': Cursory Notes on Entangled Subalternities
1'Muslim Women' and Epistemic Violence
2Migration and (Post) Colonial Path Dependency
3'Muslim Men' and a Critique of Patriarchal Reason
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