Joppke, Christian (2024). From asylum to labour: track change in German migration policy. West European politics, 47(4), pp. 813-839. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/01402382.2023.2238163
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Asylum and labour migration used to be processed along sharply separate
legal-political tracks, recognising either humanitarian need or individual perfor-
mance, respectively. This binary is losing traction, as neoliberal performance
criteria and mundane labour needs hold entry in the asylum domain. This
trend is illustrated along the Spurwechsel (track change) in German migration
policy. While the preference for track change traverses party lines, it is marked
by a tension between the imperatives of migration control and migrant inte-
gration. This allows for political variation, the right tending towards the control
and the left towards the integration horn of the dilemma. Under a recently
left-dominated government, which is at the same time receptive to business
calls for more Fachkräfte (skilled labour), the control versus integration dilemma
has been decisively resolved in favour of integration, up to a point that the
state’s sovereign migration control function and the integrity of asylum policy
are put at risk.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Sociology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Joppke, Christian Georg |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
0140-2382 |
Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Elisa Moor |
Date Deposited: |
05 Jun 2024 15:34 |
Last Modified: |
05 Jun 2024 15:34 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1080/01402382.2023.2238163 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/197577 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/197577 |
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