»... und deutsch ist wichtig für die Sicherheit!« Eine kleine Genealogie des Spracherwerbs Deutsch in der BRD

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“…This quotation demonstrates that the securitization critique not only applies to the citizenship courses, but also to the tests (cf. zur Nieden 2009). Even the ceremony which formally or symbolically concludes the process for successful applicants was experienced by some as a moment of separation and boundary-drawing, confirming the dialectical critique (cf.…”

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Responding to the call for the Super Citizen: migrants’ ambivalent experiences of naturalization in Germany and the United Kingdom

Badenhoop

2021

Citizenship Studies

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Migration and citizenship studies tend to see naturalization as a highly ambivalent process which simultaneously includes and excludes migrants. Moving beyond this inclusion/exclusion divide, I conceptualize naturalization as a subject-formation regime that encourages naturalized citizens to transform themselves into political, economic and cultural assets to the nation-state, a subjectivity which I term (alluding to its overstraining character) the 'Super Citizen'. How, then, is the call for the Super Citizen received and answered? Based on a thematic analysis of interviews with migrants applying for citizenship in either Germany or the United Kingdom, this article examines migrants' experiences of naturalization and identifies three types of response to the Super Citizen call: embrace, contestation, and disaffection. I argue that subject-formation is powerful, but not as deterministic as the literature suggests. The Super Citizen produces a competition for state recognition and new hierarchies among naturalized, national-born, and non-national citizens.

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“…However, sociological and anthropological analyses argue that the tests, courses and ceremonies are problematic because they exclude, racialize, and securitize migrants (cf. Byrne 2014;Nieden 2009;Hà 2010).…”

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Responding to the call for the Super Citizen: migrants’ ambivalent experiences of naturalization in Germany and the United Kingdom

Badenhoop

2021

Citizenship Studies

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“…One very important point, which Birgit zur Nieden makes, is that while traditionally institutes of adult education were by law independent of state curricula, they now are liable to the state (zur Nieden 2009). This is highly significant because adult education, as well as cultural education, in Germany were given autonomy due to the intervention of the allied forces after the Second World War.…”

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The making of ‘good citizens’: German courses for migrants and refugees

Heinemann

2017

Studies in the Education of Adults

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Newcomers to Austria and Germany are obliged to learn German, as both of the nation states define themselves as monolingualalthough millions of citizens speak more than one language. The demand to learn the national language is promoted by the shaky promise that it is an entrance ticket to the labour market and also a sine qua non to be respected by German and Austrian citizens. The main research questions of this qualitative study on language courses for migrants and refugees in Germany and Austria are as follows. Which normative knowledge is conveyed to students? How is it conveyed? How do students resist, and sometimes even subvert the (hidden) endeavours of the courses? Through participatory observation, interviews with teachers and a discourse analysis of the state accredited teaching materials, I demonstrate how Eurocentric norms are reproduced and stabilized. The first results highlight the reproduction of mainstream norms and the production of three different interwoven subject types: a) the economic subject who responds appropriately to the needs of a national neoliberal labour market; b) the submissive subject who agrees to norms and rules without the power to fully politically participate; c) the othered subject who forms the pleasing 'constitutive outside' of the national body.

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Language as a new instrument of border control: the regulation of marriage migration from Morocco to Germany

Gutekunst

2015

The Journal of North African Studies

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In 2007, the German government introduced the requirement of a language certificate for citizens of 'third countries' who want to join their spouses in the Federal Republic. Thereby, Germany followed the example of the Netherlands, Austria, the UK and France. German policy-makers have justified this language certificate as a measure to facilitate integration before entering the country. Drawing on the Moroccan case, this paper challenges this dominant integration argument and shows the actual consequences of this new instrument of border control. This paper argues that the language certificate leads above all to the hierarchisation of marriage migrants and even to the exclusion of certain candidates, depending on their educational background and financial means. The history of marriage migration from Morocco to Germany shows that family migration, especially of spouses, has a long tradition and has always been the special target of restrictions and control. However, the required language certificate leads to a new level of control. While marriage migration is traditionally based on a private matter, namely the decision to marry someone and to share life together, the utilitarian logic of a neoliberal migration management has found its way into the control of this form of migration. This is also visible in the externalisation of the border regime in the sense of an out-sourcing of migration management, whereby institutions such as language schools have become an integrated part of Germany's border control system.

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»... und deutsch ist wichtig für die Sicherheit!« Eine kleine Genealogie des Spracherwerbs Deutsch in der BRD

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Responding to the call for the Super Citizen: migrants’ ambivalent experiences of naturalization in Germany and the United Kingdom

Responding to the call for the Super Citizen: migrants’ ambivalent experiences of naturalization in Germany and the United Kingdom

The making of ‘good citizens’: German courses for migrants and refugees

Language as a new instrument of border control: the regulation of marriage migration from Morocco to Germany

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