A spectre in Germany: refugees, a ‘welcome culture’ and an ‘integration politics’
The German state permitted about one million refugees to enter Germany in 2015-2016, although many were subsequently denied refugee status. Germany adopted an ‘integration’ and ‘welcome’ politics, an important, if imperfect, model for a European refugee policy. The integration of refugees required t...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2016]
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Journal of global ethics
Jahr: 2016, Band: 12, Heft: 3, Seiten: 289-299 |
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Syrian refugees 2015–2016
B German ‘welcome’ and ‘integration’ politics’ B German refugee policy 2015–2016 B state and individual duties to refugees B philosophical discourse on refugee policy |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The German state permitted about one million refugees to enter Germany in 2015-2016, although many were subsequently denied refugee status. Germany adopted an ‘integration’ and ‘welcome’ politics, an important, if imperfect, model for a European refugee policy. The integration of refugees required the joint activity of state, of civil society, of the public sphere and of refugees themselves. Civil society initiated a vast amount of essential care work and solidarity with refugees pursued especially, but not only, by women, yet civil society and refugees had no say in refugee policies. German refugee policy and practice raised many normative issues, producing an intense and vigorous national debate about them, in which philosophers and theorists were active. Among the questions debated were whether Germany had accepted ‘too many’ refugees, the acceptability of the costs of the policy, the risks of harm to the least well off, the purported risks to safety, security and the social order and the purported threats to German culture. I first describe German state policies, practices and civil society efforts and then turn to normative debates. I discuss the limits of the German discourse and suggest how it needs to be expanded. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-9634 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of global ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17449626.2016.1252785 |