Regulating ethnic immigration: The case of the Aüssiedler
The migration of ethnic Germans to Germany is one of the major migration movements to Western Europe after 1950. The efforts of successive German governments to regulate and control the immigration of Aüssiedler may well give some insight into the capacities of governments of democratic states to re...
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| Published in: | Journal of ethnic and migration studies Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 461 - 482 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
01-10-1997
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| Summary: | The migration of ethnic Germans to Germany is one of the major migration movements to Western Europe after 1950. The efforts of successive German governments to regulate and control the immigration of Aüssiedler may well give some insight into the capacities of governments of democratic states to regulate immigration. This article gives a historical overview of the various instruments used by the German government in order to regulate the immigration of Aüssiedler. The effect of those instruments on the migration movement and the relative (in)effectiveness of the policy instruments are explored on the basis of a comparison of the migration from Poland, Romania and the former USSR. The hypotheses on the limits of governmental efforts to control migration, proposed by van Amersfoort (1996), and some of the typicial characteristics of ethnic migration influencing policy making are discussed. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 1369-183X 1469-9451 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976606 |