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Governmental Migration Research in Germany : Knowledge Production at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kratzer, Vinzenz
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript, [2021]
Series:Kultur und soziale Praxis.
Subjects:
Germany > Emigration and immigration.
Anthropology of the State.
Cultural Anthropology.
Germany.
Knowledge Production.
Politics.
Science.
Sociology of Knowledge.
Sociology of Science.
Sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • What Makes Knowledge Governmental?
  • Knowledge Production and Migration Policy Making
  • Seeing Like a State
  • Four Features of Governmental Knowledge
  • Research Program
  • History of Governmental Migration Research
  • Refugee Research
  • "Guest Worker" and "Foreigner" Research
  • Policy Legitimization
  • Conclusion
  • A "Lost Decade"
  • Legitimatory Knowledge
  • Conclusion
  • Instrumental Narratives and Institutional Traditions
  • Structural Conditions of Knowledge Production
  • Paradigm Change
  • Implementation
  • Establishment of the Research Group
  • The Research Group as a Departmental Research Institution
  • Institutional Conflict and Cooperation
  • Strategic Orientation of the Research
  • Conclusion
  • Analysis of Governmental Knowledge Production
  • Framework of Analysis
  • Quantitative Overview
  • Qualitative Analysis
  • Knowledge for Administration
  • The Migration Report
  • Practical Relevance: Legibility
  • Effects on the Knowledge: Governmentality
  • Conclusion
  • Integration Research
  • Towards a Hegemonic Understanding of Integration
  • Practical Relevance: From Migrant Assimilation to Migration Management
  • Effects on the Knowledge: Selective Blindness towards Discrimination
  • Conclusion
  • Calming Public Debate through Objective Knowledge
  • Muslim Life in Germany
  • Practical Relevance: Dispelling Myths
  • Effects on the Knowledge: The "Gaze from Nowhere"
  • Conclusion
  • Migration Potential
  • Migration Potential and Potential of Migration
  • Practical Relevance: Ex-Post Legitimization
  • Effects on the Knowledge: "Fuzzy Logic"
  • Conclusion
  • The Revenge of Practical Relevance
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • List of Interviews