Discourses of the Willkommenskultur (Welcoming culture) in Germany

Windel, Friederike; Balaram, Arita; Perkins, Krystal M.

doi:10.1080/17405904.2020.1839921

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“…An in-depth analysis conducted by Schiffauer suggests that these reports are strongly biased. According to the domestic intelligence service, public activities of legalist Islamist associations are portrayed as a strategy to hide their ‘real’ agenda: statements are turned into their opposite, the creation of legal departments is seen as problematic, and youth work is interpreted as creating a ‘parallel society’ (a self-created ‘ghetto’) (Gestring, 2011; Windel et al, 2022). As Schiffauer has shown, these portrayals by the domestic intelligence service affect the associations: In civil society, many NGOs do not want to cooperate officially, fearing the loss of public funding and negative media coverage.…”

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Criminalizing Muslim agency in Europe: The case of ‘political Islam’ in Austria, Germany, and France

Hafez

2022

French Cultural Studies

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This article discusses the emergence of a discourse on ‘political Islam’ in the policy circles of European elites. It interprets this discourse on one hand as a manifestation of the further criminalization of Muslimness emanating from programs of countering ‘extremism’ and deradicalizing Muslim youth in the wake of the global war on terror. More specifically, the discourse on ‘political Islam’ is seen as an extension of countering violent extremism projects to counter an alleged non-violent ‘extremism.’ The article discusses three cases: Austria, Germany, and France to analyze what the fight against ‘political Islam’ (in Austria), ‘legalistic Islamism’ (in Germany), and ‘Islamist separatism’ (in France) respectively mean. These terminologies are analyzed as ‘empty signifiers’ and (Foucauldian) dispositifs that are used deliberately to legitimize state interventions to shape their respective societies. It is argued that the main shared idea is not that Muslims break the law or commit violence. Rather, the argument is that Muslims use the law to subvert their European nation-states. This aims at excluding Muslims from political life and not allowing them to shape the future of these countries. A simultaneous effort is the nurturing of an unpolitical, submissive Muslim that does not question hegemonial power structures, a project which is pursued by creating a domesticated or ‘national Islam.’ The article discusses these three terminologies' similarities and differences in the respective countries. In sum, the apparatus of ‘political Islam’ is interpreted as a means to 1) push back or exclude Muslims from the public sphere; 2) crackdown on organized Muslims; and 3) silence critical voices to these policies.

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Criminalizing Muslim agency in Europe: The case of ‘political Islam’ in Austria, Germany, and France

Hafez

2022

French Cultural Studies

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“…Accordingly, creating a welcoming environment is especially important for the reception of newly arrived migrants and their initial experiences in the host country and should not be confused with migrant integration. Thus far, research on welcoming cultures has been studied through the lens of local public institutions in Germany (Föbker et al, 2014; Imani et al, 2015) and Switzerland (Sandoz, 2019), from the perspective of native‐born German citizens (von Hermanni & Neumann, 2019; Windel, Balaram & Perkins, 2020) and individuals volunteering for initiatives welcoming recently arrived refugees in Germany (Hamann & Karakayali, 2016). In addition, de Lange (2018) analysed to what extent Dutch, German and French policies for third‐country immigrant entrepreneurs are welcoming.…”

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“If you smile, they smile”: Explaining highly educated migrants' feelings of being welcome in the Euregio Meuse‐Rhine

Reinold,

Hooijen,

Özer

2024

Population Space and Place

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Creating a welcoming environment is high on policy makers' agendas to attract highly educated migrants. It is unclear, however, which factors contribute to migrants' feelings of being welcome in the host country. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by exploring the factors influencing highly educated migrants' feelings of being welcome in the host country. We develop a conceptual framework that differentiates between the host country's institutional (e.g., public services for migrants) and societal (e.g., tolerance, friendliness) incorporation capacity and the migrants' personal incorporation capacity (e.g., personality traits). The study follows a mixed methods research design using survey data (n = 391) and serial interviews (wave1: n = 67; wave2: n = 49) with highly educated migrants in the Euregio Meuse‐Rhine, a cross‐border region between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The quantitative and qualitative findings indicate that all three indicators of the incorporation capacity framework contribute to migrants' feelings of being welcome in the host country. The societal incorporation capacity emerges as most important in the analysis. Lastly, interview findings emphasise the importance of language across all incorporation capacity dimensions. The paper contributes to the literature on high‐skilled migration, and particularly on high‐skilled migrants' experiences in the host country.

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“…Thus far, research on welcoming cultures has been studied through the lens of local public institutions in Germany (Föbker, et al,2014;Imani, Otto & Wiegandt, 2015) and Switzerland (Sandoz, 2019), from the perspective of native-born German citizens (von Hermanni & Neumann, 2018;Windel, Balaram & Perkins, 2020) and individuals volunteering for initiatives welcoming recently arrived refugees in Germany (Hamann & Karakayali, 2016). In addition, De Lange (2018) analysed to what extent Dutch, German and French policies for third country immigrant entrepreneurs can be labelled as welcoming.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In German politics, the term welcoming culture is preferred over terms such as multiculturalism or cultural pluralism since the latter are associated with heated debates from the past(Kösemen, 2017;Hamann & Karakayali, 2016;Windel, et al,2020).18 This study builds on earlier research on "Highly educated migrants' perceptions of the Euregional welcoming culture", which was commissioned by the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility (ITEM) in the framework of the INTERREG-V-A project youRegion(Reinold, 2021).19 The EMR is an interesting case study since relevant stakeholders are working together towards establishing a crossborder welcoming culture(Reinold, 2021).…”

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Essays on attracting and retaining highly educated migrants

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Discourses of the Willkommenskultur (Welcoming culture) in Germany

Cited by 4 publications

References 46 publications

Criminalizing Muslim agency in Europe: The case of ‘political Islam’ in Austria, Germany, and France

Criminalizing Muslim agency in Europe: The case of ‘political Islam’ in Austria, Germany, and France

“If you smile, they smile”: Explaining highly educated migrants' feelings of being welcome in the Euregio Meuse‐Rhine

Essays on attracting and retaining highly educated migrants

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