Zur historischen Kontinuität von Argumentationsmustern im Migrationsdiskurs

Wengler, Martin

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“…This economic focus of the debate and the relative consistent association of immigration with economic growth represent immigration policies and practices in modern Germany that have long pursued economic goals (Bade 2004;Brubaker 1992). This finding is also consistent with Wengeler's (2006) observation that the argument of immigration benefiting the national economy has been a staple of postwar immigration discourse in Germany.…”

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Media Discourse and the New German Immigration Law

Bauder¹

2007

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Between 2001 and 2004, an initially innovative proposal of a German immigration law was transformed into a rather conservative piece of legislation. This paper systematically analyses media discourse during this period. A content analysis of five prominent German newspapers reveals that media attention to the issue of immigration in the context of the new law fluctuated considerably and that different models of argumentation were mobilised in different stages of the debate. While economic arguments occurred with consistent frequency, arguments stressing the dangers of immigration were used mainly in the context of other world events, such as the attacks in Madrid.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…The existing literature tends to neglect this aspect of the German immigration discourse, although Wengeler (2006) includes it under a list of consistently appearing topoi in German immigration debate. Catharine Dauvergne (2005) suggests that liberally-minded immigration countries use humanitarian immigration as a tool for nation building.…”

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Media Discourse and the New German Immigration Law

Bauder¹

2007

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…A different study revealed that the economic‐utility perspective also dominated in the newspaper coverage of the debate on Germany's immigration law between 2001 and 2005 (Bauder forthcoming). Apparently, the perspective of immigration as a matter of economic utility has been a staple of post‐war migration discourse in Germany (Wengeler 2006). In particular, the more recent debate on the new German immigration law illustrates how language and discourse relate to the contemporary progression of neoliberalism.…”

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“…In German immigration discourse, the view of immigration as an economic tool is particularly important. Martin Wengeler (2003) uses the term "economic utility" (wirtschaftlicher Nutzen) to describe the most frequent perspective that occurred in the German media discourse of immigration during the 1960s and 1970s. A different study revealed that the economic-utility perspective also dominated in the newspaper coverage of the debate on Germany's immigration law between 2001 and 2005 (Bauder forthcoming).…”

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“…A discourse analysis of articles published in five German daily newspapers pays particular attention to the perspective that immigration serves as an economic utility and should therefore be enabled or constrained. This economic‐utility perspective has been present in German immigration discourse throughout the post‐World‐War II period (Wengeler 2003; 2006) and dominated the media debate in the more recent discussions of the new immigration law (Bauder forthcoming). This dominance raises the research question of how this media discourse, emphasizing the economic‐utility of immigration, relates to the policy and legal context of neoliberal regulation in Germany.…”

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Neoliberalism and the Economic Utility of Immigration: Media Perspectives of Germany's Immigration Law

Bauder

2008

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Germany's new immigration law, which took effect in 2005, was hotly debated over a period of four years. This paper follows the debate on the law through the newsprint media, examines the representation of immigration as an economic utility, and investigates the contents of this economic‐utility perspective of immigration in light of neoliberal restructuring in Germany. The analysis focuses on 609 articles sampled from five major German daily newspapers published between July 2001 and August 2005. A discourse analysis suggests that the newsprint media represented immigration on the one hand as an economic necessity to replenish the labor market and ensure the international competitiveness of key industrial sectors. On the other hand, immigration was depicted as an economic liability that raises unemployment rates and burdens the public welfare system. Although the media emphasized the economic necessity of immigration, the final law does not permit any significant immigration of labor. The paper resolves this contradiction by situating media discourse in a wider context of neoliberal reforms and European Union expansion.

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Globalisierung als Spaltpilz und sozialer Sprengsatz

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Zur historischen Kontinuität von Argumentationsmustern im Migrationsdiskurs

Cited by 33 publications

References 4 publications

Media Discourse and the New German Immigration Law

Media Discourse and the New German Immigration Law

Neoliberalism and the Economic Utility of Immigration: Media Perspectives of Germany's Immigration Law

Globalisierung als Spaltpilz und sozialer Sprengsatz

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