No Country for Migrants?: Critical Perspectives on Asylum, Immigration, and Integration in Germany

by Wilfried Zoungrana

Overview

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 broader historical narratives of migration to explain its exceptionality as an event and its transformative impact 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 as well as soft and hard power in migration control, language and societal integration, immigration and the revival of right-wing extremism, and religion and immigration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642593563
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	10/27/2020
Series:	Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Pages:	247
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Wilfried Zoungrana holds a Ph.D. (2016, University of Erfurt), published as Method as Theory: Lakatos, Methodology, and Interpretive International Relations and Knowledge at War: Epistemology and Terrorism in IR Theory (wvb, 2017). He further published on international law and culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Abbreviations x

Introduction 1

1 The 2015 German Refugee Crisis as an Event 11

1 From Political to Metaphysical: Multiple Conceptualizations of the Event 13

2 Syria: The Supernumerary of an Evental Site 28

3 Undecidability and the Edge of the Void 39

4 Interventional Gestures 43

5 Transcendental Arrangements 46

2 An Abbreviated History of Germany's Migration Discourses and Policies 49

1 Historiographical Omissions and Sociological Exclusions 50

2 Bismarck, Leutenot, and the Early Securitization of Migration 52

3 Weber and the Empowerment of Nationalistic Audiences 59

4 Of C2,3P, and Muddling through: Regulating Securitized Migration 64

3 Soft and Hard: Power, Asylum, and Germany 91

1 Soft Power Meets Asylum 92

2 The 'Objective' Soft Power of a Reluctant Hegemon 94

3 The Duality of Soft Power on Asylum 97

4 Hard and Economic Power in Migration Control 106

4 On Language, Integration, and Pedagogy 111

1 Language, Structuralist Linguistics, and Integration 116

2 The Language Testing Regime and Its Discontent 120

3 Challenges in Acquiring German as a Second Language, and Integration 123

4 Toward Radical Perspectives on the Pedagogy of Integration 133

5 Jacotot's Method and Secondary Language Acquisition 140

5 Civilization-Culture-Character: the Plateaus of the 'Clash Rhizome' 151

1 Civilization in the Clash Rhizome 153

2 The German Reception of the Clash of Civilizations 159

3 Culture in the Clash Rhizome 169

4 Character between Affects and Late Modernity and Capitalism 176

6 The "Deep Story" of the Elder Son 181

1 The Prodigal Son in the Biblical Narrative 185

2 The Younger Son's Revolutionary Wager 187

3 The Father and the Cost of Humanitarian Largesse 188

4 Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and the 'Anger and Mourning' of the Elder Son 189

7 'Muslim Girls' and 'Muslim Men': Cursory Notes on Entangled Subalternities 194

1 'Muslim Women' and Epistemic Violence 200

2 Migration and (Post) Colonial Path Dependency 202

3 'Muslim Men' and a Critique of Patriarchal Reason 204

Bibliography 209

Index 239