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From asylum to labour: track change in German migration policy.
- Source :
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West European Politics . May2024, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p813-839. 27p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Asylum and labour migration used to be processed along sharply separate legal-political tracks, recognising either humanitarian need or individual performance, 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 integration. 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *DILEMMA
*IMMIGRATION enforcement
*INDIVIDUAL needs
*SOVEREIGNTY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01402382
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- West European Politics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175196880
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2023.2238163