Citizenship Debates in the New Germany |
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Authors: | Robert Carle |
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Affiliation: | (1) The King’s College, New York, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | Nowhere is the fear, guilt, and pain of Germany’s dreadful past more evident that in contemporary debates over immigration policy. This debate has pit successive Christian Democratic Union politicians, who define Germany in ethno-nationalist terms, against the German left, which seeks to replace the volkish national tradition with a post-national multicultural identity. Ethno-nationalists and multicultural post-nationalists speak powerful, but mutually exclusive, moral languages that galvanize large segments of the German public. At the national level, extremists rarely succeed in Germany’s immigration debates, and the legislation that prevails represents a chaotic mix of liberal and nationalist policies. |
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Keywords: | Germany Immigration Guestworkers Multiculturalism Nationalism |
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