Chapter 18 Jewish Immigration: Contesting and Confirming Germany’s Policies toward Immigrants

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Abbreviations x
6. Introduction xii
7. Part 1 Membership and the Basic Law
8. Chapter 1 The International Dimension 1
9. Chapter 2 The Federalist Dimension 11
10. Chapter 3 The Civic/Political Dimension 16
11. Chapter 4 The Social Dimension 19
12. Chapter 5 The Ethnonational Dimension 22
13. Chapter 6 Debating Concepts of National Membership 30
14. Chapter 7 Integration, National Identity, and the Quest for Homogeneity 37
15. Part 2 Laying the Foundation for Managing Migration, 1949–1990
16. Chapter 8 The Descent of the Aussiedler and the Politics of the German Diaspora 53
17. Chapter 9 The Federal Republic as German Homeland 76
18. Chapter 10 A Tradition of Imported Labor 86
19. Chapter 11 Between Retreat and Reform: Naturalization Laws and the Challenge of Integration 97
20. Chapter 12 Aliens Policy and the Federal Courts 119
21. Chapter 13 The FRG’s International Refugee Challenge 126
22. Chapter 14 Reunification: Triumph and Tragedy 144
23. Part 3 Germany inside the European Union
24. Chapter 15 Reforming the Frameworks: The Maastricht Treaty and the Basic Law 159
25. Chapter 16 The Restriction of Asylum 168
26. Chapter 17 Rethinking Legacies: The New Aussiedler Policy 181
27. Chapter 18 Jewish Immigration: Contesting and Confirming Germany’s Policies toward Immigrants 188
28. Chapter 19 Reforming German Citizenship Law 197
29. Chapter 20 Bilateral Agreements 207
30. Chapter 21 Temporary Labor Migration Programs 211
31. Chapter 22 The Amsterdam Treaty and the Emergent EU Migration Policy 216
32. Part 4 Germany Faces the Future: New Initiatives, Old Habits
33. Chapter 23 Green Cards and Leitkultur 229
34. Chapter 24 Germany’s and Europe’s Demographic Dilemmas 238
35. Chapter 25 Embracing Immigration: Laying the Foundation for a New Policy 244
36. Chapter 26 From Policy Vision to Legislative Reality: The Making of the 2005 Migration Law 251
37. Chapter 27 Integration and the Migration Law 261
38. Conclusion: Negotiating Difference and Belonging in Today’s Germany 273
39. Selected Bibliography 286
40. Index 316