Is Germany moving on migration? : the new citizenship and immigration politics of the government by and the greens
The German coalition government by the Social Democrats and the Greens is preparing to introduce a second crucial reform concerning the immigrant population. After the 1999 reform of the nationality law, Germany is taking another step towards modelling a comprehensive and long expected organised imm...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2002 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Huelva (UHU) |
| Repository: | Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/136 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10272/136 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Alemania Políticas migratorias Ciudadanía Mercado de trabajo Germany Inmigration Policies Citizenship Labour Markets |
| Summary: | The German coalition government by the Social Democrats and the Greens is preparing to introduce a second crucial reform concerning the immigrant population. After the 1999 reform of the nationality law, Germany is taking another step towards modelling a comprehensive and long expected organised immigration policy, concluding for the first time officially that Germany is not only a country of immigration, but to state that further immigration is needed. Yet, while citizenship politics in Germany is departing from old ethnic conceptions with the possibility for immigrant children to acquire citizenship by birth and a reduction of the requirements for naturalisation, policies for (labour) migration still remain in an attitude known from the past: immigrants are only “wanted” if they fit to the structural needs of the labour market and the economy. Thus, the planned immigration law is in danger to repeat the failure of former guest-worker policies when treating immigrants just as workers. German immigration policy seems to remain a purely selective mechanism in the global contest for the best qualified labour migrants |
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