Negotiating the Boundaries of Belonging - The Intricacies of Naturalisation in Germany

Nils Witte explores Turkish migrants' destigmatization strategies and investigates their legal and symbolic motives for naturalisation. Using mixed methods and unique data the author shows that Turkish migrants' inclination to naturalise would be stronger if they were allowed to retain their former citizenship and if they were recognized as symbolic members of German society. Minority members enjoy expansive rights as permanent residents and many are entitled to hold German citizenship. However, they often experience symbolic exclusion making symbolic membership a rare motive for naturalisation.

List of contents

Naturalisation in a Post-National World.- Theorizing Legal and Symbolic Membership .- Survey Results: Symbolic and Legal Membership.- Qualitative Interviews: Stigmatization and Destigmatization.

Summary

Mixed methods study using unique data

Product details

• Authors: Nils Witte
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2017
• EAN: 9783658197865
• ISBN: 978-3-658-19786-5
• No. of pages: 209
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 16 mm x 209 mm
• Weight: 306 g
• Illustrations: IX, 209 p. 3 illus.
• Series: Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Migration, Soziologie, C, Sociology, Politik und Staat, Bevölkerung und Migrationsgeographie, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Social research & statistics, Emigration and immigration, Citizenship—Sociological aspects, Sociology of Citizenship