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| Titel: |
A 'guiding culture' for immigrants? Integration and diversity in Germany |
| Auteur: |
Klusmeyer, Douglas |
| Verschenen in: |
Journal of ethnic and migration studies |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 27 (2001) nr. 3 pagina's 519-532 |
| Jaar: |
2001-07-01 |
| Inhoud: |
The Christian Democratic Union's (CDU's) recent proposal for a national 'guiding culture' as the basis for immigrant integration has aroused considerable controversy in Germany. This paper examines the underlying assumptions and framework of this approach to integration. It argues that this approach rests on a Romantic understanding of culture that obscures fundamental internal differences within majority cultures and further marginalises minorities. In postulating a unitary, homogeneous vision of German national culture, the CDU has forgotten the sharp conflicts that long divided German Protestants and Catholics, and which reached their apex during the Kulturkampf of the 1870s. Moreover, focussing on immigrant integration as primarily a cultural matter ignores the relationships of power that shape any integration process. The importance of looking at the institutional and structural dimensions of such a process is made clear by comparing the Federal Republic's experiences with integrating the expellees/refugees of the 1950s and the East Germans after 1990. The CDU's notion of a 'guiding culture' for immigrants should be understood as illustrative of a broader pattern among elites in modern liberal-democratic states to invoke cultural and other ascriptive characteristics as a rationale in order to deny full and equal membership to minorities and other disadvantaged groups. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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