‘From rhetoric to practice: a critique of immigration policy in Germany through the lens of Turkish-Muslim women’s experiences of migration’

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dc.contributor.authorClarence, Sherran
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-01T10:08:08Z
dc.date.available2014-07-01T10:08:08Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThe largest group of migrants in Germany is the Turkish people, many of whom have low skills levels, are Muslim, and are slow to integrate themselves into their host communities. German immigration policy has been significantly revised since the early 1990s, and a new Immigration Act came into force in 2005, containing more inclusive stances on citizenship and integration of migrants. There is a strong rhetoric of acceptance and open doors, within certain parameters, but the gap between the rhetoric and practice is still wide enough to allow many migrants, particularly women, to fall through it. Turkish-Muslim women bear the brunt of the difficulties faced once they have arrived in Germany, and many of them are subject to domestic abuse, joblessness and poverty because of their invisibility to the German state, which is the case largely because German immigration policy does not fully realise a role and place for women migrants. The policy also does not sufficiently account for ethnic and cultural identification, or limitations faced by migrants in that while it speaks to integration, it does not fully enable this process to take place effectively. Even though it has made many advances in recent years towards a more open and inclusive immigration policy, Germany is still a ‘reluctant’ country of immigration, and this reluctance stops it from making any real strides towards integrating migrants fully into German society at large. The German government needs to take a much firmer stance on the roles of migrant women in its society, and the nature of the ethnic and religious identities of Muslim immigrants, in order to both create and implement immigration policy that truly allows immigrants to become full and contributing members to German social and economic life, and to bring it in line with the European Union’s common directives on immigration.en_US
dc.description.accreditationInternational Bibliography of Social Sciencesen_US
dc.identifier.citationClarence, S. (2009). ‘From rhetoric to practice: a critique of immigration policy in Germany through the lens of Turkish-Muslim women’s experiences of migration’. Theoria, 56(121): 57-91en_US
dc.identifier.issn0040-5817
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1112
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherBerghahn Journalsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright Berghahn Journals. This is the author's final draft following peer review. It may be displayed and circulated, subject to full acknowledgement of author and source.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.3167/th.2009.5512104
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectEthnicityen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen_US
dc.subjectExclusionen_US
dc.subjectGermanyen_US
dc.subjectGuest workersen_US
dc.subjectImmigrationen_US
dc.subjectImmigration policyen_US
dc.subjectTurkish-Muslim womenen_US
dc.title‘From rhetoric to practice: a critique of immigration policy in Germany through the lens of Turkish-Muslim women’s experiences of migration’en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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