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One Word Shapes a Nation demonstrates that integration politics limit how immigrants, refugees, and their descendants can participate in German society and how Germans imagine their national future. By reconstructing recent polemic media scandals, re-interpreting historical narratives about migration after the Second World War, and conducting extensive fieldwork with social work organizations that implement ""integrative"" programs, Johanna Schuster-Craig explores the intersection between media, capital, nation-building, and human lives in contemporary German society. The book reveals that while anti-immigrant tropes are long-standing in German post-war history, integration is not the only potential model. Schuster-Craig argues that ""integration politics"" in Germany is defined by a selective approach to who qualifies as a citizen, as well as beliefs about German national identity that require assimilation to cultural values beyond mere naturalization. Drawing on media analysis of key public speeches and debates, historical analysis, and ethnographic observation and interviews, Schuster-Craig examines the nature and impact of an integrative apparatus. One Word Shapes a Nation ultimately asks what it would take to reimagine immigrant incorporation as a form of citizenship that applies to everyone.

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Author:   Johanna Schuster-Craig
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Volume:   53
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9781487551179

ISBN 10:   1487551177
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   17 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"""One Word Shapes a Nation provides a much-needed scholarly interrogation of integration as a form of governmentality in Germany. Johanna Schuster-Craig charts the post-Second World War story and broad contemporary impacts of the politics of integration, carefully attending to the racialized context of immigration and its management. The book takes as its primary focus an interdisciplinary examination of the policies of the 2000s as they appear in public debates, media discussions, and the work of those organizations implementing policy. By distinguishing between the work of incorporation and the apparatus of integration, One Word Shapes a Nation provides a key framework for understanding immigration in contemporary Germany.""--Beverly Weber, Professor of German Studies, University of Colorado Boulder ""Written with compelling clarity and a palpable sense of purpose, World One Shapes a Nation helps to sharpen our discourse and train our focus on inclusion and access, incorporation, and participation beyond the assimilationist pressures of the 'integration apparatus.'""--Johannes von Moltke, Professor of German Studies and Film, Media, and Television, University of Michigan ""Johanna Schuster-Craig's pathbreaking book is the first comprehensive study to engage with the concept of integration and its varied meanings in a range of discursive spaces, specifically its politicization and political instrumentalization across the political spectrum. This meticulously researched, truly interdisciplinary monograph is not only an invaluable resource for inclusion into undergraduate and graduate curricula but also provides critical insights for research on integration and migration politics, race, racism, and whiteness, as well as right-wing nationalism.""--Ela Gezen, Associate Professor of German, University of Massachusetts Amherst ""One Word Shapes a Nation shows how the term 'integration' has become an obstacle to meaningful migrant incorporation into German society and democracy. Schuster-Craig expertly analyses the way that tropes about migration travel across the political spectrum, showing the links between centrist and far-right discourses on migration. Bristling with insights about history, media, politics, and social work, this book is an indispensable guide to the contemporary political landscape.""--Lauren Stokes, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University"

""One Word Shapes a Nation provides a much-needed scholarly interrogation of integration as a form of governmentality in Germany. Johanna Schuster-Craig charts the post-Second World War story and broad contemporary impacts of the politics of integration, carefully attending to the racialized context of immigration and its management. The book takes as its primary focus an interdisciplinary examination of the policies of the 2000s as they appear in public debates, media discussions, and the work of those organizations implementing policy. By distinguishing between the work of incorporation and the apparatus of integration, One Word Shapes a Nation provides a key framework for understanding immigration in contemporary Germany.""--Beverly Weber, Professor of German Studies, University of Colorado Boulder ""Written with compelling clarity and a palpable sense of purpose, World One Shapes a Nation helps to sharpen our discourse and train our focus on inclusion and access, incorporation, and participation beyond the assimilationist pressures of the 'integration apparatus.'""--Johannes von Moltke, Professor of German Studies and Film, Media, and Television, University of Michigan ""Johanna Schuster-Craig's pathbreaking book is the first comprehensive study to engage with the concept of integration and its varied meanings in a range of discursive spaces, specifically its politicization and political instrumentalization across the political spectrum. This meticulously researched, truly interdisciplinary monograph is not only an invaluable resource for inclusion into undergraduate and graduate curricula but also provides critical insights for research on integration and migration politics, race, racism, and whiteness, as well as right-wing nationalism.""--Ela Gezen, Associate Professor of German, University of Massachusetts Amherst ""One Word Shapes a Nation shows how the term 'integration' has become an obstacle to meaningful migrant incorporation into German society and democracy. Schuster-Craig expertly analyses the way that tropes about migration travel across the political spectrum, showing the links between centrist and far-right discourses on migration. Bristling with insights about history, media, politics, and social work, this book is an indispensable guide to the contemporary political landscape.""--Lauren Stokes, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University

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Johanna Schuster-Craig is a former associate professor of German and global studies at Michigan State University.

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