One Word Shapes a Nation

Integration Politics in Germany

Johanna Schuster-Craig (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2024
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5117-9 (ISBN)

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One Word Shapes a Nation examines the cultural, political, social, and economic influences on German integration politics, the field of public policy that shapes attitudes toward immigrants and refugees.

One Word Shapes a Nation demonstrates that integration politics limit how immigrants, refugees, and their descendants can participate in German society and how Germans imagine their national future. By reconstructing recent polemic media scandals, re-interpreting historical narratives about migration after the Second World War, and conducting extensive fieldwork with social work organizations that implement “integrative” programs, Johanna Schuster-Craig explores the intersection between media, capital, nation-building, and human lives in contemporary German society.

The book reveals that while anti-immigrant tropes are long-standing in German post-war history, integration is not the only potential model. Schuster-Craig argues that “integration politics” in Germany is defined by a selective approach to who qualifies as a citizen, as well as beliefs about German national identity that require assimilation to cultural values beyond mere naturalization.

Drawing on media analysis of key public speeches and debates, historical analysis, and ethnographic observation and interviews, Schuster-Craig examines the nature and impact of an integrative apparatus. One Word Shapes a Nation ultimately asks what it would take to reimagine immigrant incorporation as a form of citizenship that applies to everyone.

Johanna Schuster-Craig is a former associate professor of German and global studies at Michigan State University.

Introduction: Integration Politics

1. Demanding Integration

2. Failed Integration

3. (Un)integrable Subjects: White Supremacy and Neoliberal Ideology

4. Integration and Ethnic Similarities

5. Constructing the Integrative Apparatus

6. How the Integrative Apparatus Expands

7. One German State, One (Integrated) German Nation

8. “Muslims Who Integrate Themselves”: Integration and the Extreme Right

9. The 2016 Integration Act: Discourse and Implementation

Epilogue: Subjectivity within the Integrative Apparatus

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	German and European Studies
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4875-5117-7 / 1487551177
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-5117-9 / 9781487551179
Zustand	Neuware