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Immigration and Citizenship in Germany: Contemporary Dilemmas

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  • Jost Halfmann

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The paper starts from a paradox of contemporary German politics: after the unification of the two Germanies the ethnocultural grounding of German citizenship has lost its historical meaning; at the same time violent conflicts and heated debate over the rights to full membership for immigrants in the German state have developed. After a theoretical discussion of the notions of nation state, citizenship, and immigration, the development of the contemporary paradox of citizenship is sketched historically using two pairs of distinctions: nationhood v. statehood and political v. social (state‐mediated) inclusion. The paradox of ‘ethnicized’ conflicts over Germans v. foreigners is interpreted as a discrepancy between membership in the state on the one hand and membership in the welfare state system on the other—a discrepancy which currently is ‘overdetermined’ by the socio‐economic consequences of unification.

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  • Jost Halfmann, 1997. "Immigration and Citizenship in Germany: Contemporary Dilemmas," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 45(2), pages 260-274, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:polstu:v:45:y:1997:i:2:p:260-274
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00080
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    1. Merih Anil, 2006. "The new German citizenship law and its impact on German demographics: research notes," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 25(5), pages 443-463, December.

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