Who Belongs, and How Far? Refugees and Bureaucrats Within the German Active Welfare State

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Autor(a) principal: Menke, Katrin
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Rumpel, Andrea
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i1.4646
Resumo: Concepts such as “belonging” (Yuval‐Davis, 2011) and “community of value” (Anderson, 2013) try to capture the multiple ways of classifying migrants. In this article, we argue that belonging needs to be analyzed against the backdrop of active social citizenship in European welfare states. Although the literature acknowledges the increasing links between migration and social policies, the latest “turn to activation” in social policy has hardly been accounted for. By focusing on two policy fields in Germany, the labor market and health policies, we briefly describe discourses and social right entitlements and their ambivalences. Empirically we show (a) how bureaucrats within the two policy fields regulate and justify refugees’ social rights in practice and (b) how refugees act vis‐à‐vis relevant institutional opportunity structures. Our study contributes to previous research twofold: Firstly, we illustrate processes of positioning and selecting refugees that stem from recent social policy architecture. Secondly, we demonstrate everyday experiences from refugees’ vis‐á‐vis relevant institutional opportunity structures in Germany. Our results show that inconsistencies within and between social policy fields of one welfare state have to be taken into consideration for further national and transnational research.
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spelling Who Belongs, and How Far? Refugees and Bureaucrats Within the German Active Welfare Stateactive social citizenship; belonging; health policy; labor market policy; migration policy; female refugees; social policy; welfare statesConcepts such as “belonging” (Yuval‐Davis, 2011) and “community of value” (Anderson, 2013) try to capture the multiple ways of classifying migrants. In this article, we argue that belonging needs to be analyzed against the backdrop of active social citizenship in European welfare states. Although the literature acknowledges the increasing links between migration and social policies, the latest “turn to activation” in social policy has hardly been accounted for. By focusing on two policy fields in Germany, the labor market and health policies, we briefly describe discourses and social right entitlements and their ambivalences. Empirically we show (a) how bureaucrats within the two policy fields regulate and justify refugees’ social rights in practice and (b) how refugees act vis‐à‐vis relevant institutional opportunity structures. Our study contributes to previous research twofold: Firstly, we illustrate processes of positioning and selecting refugees that stem from recent social policy architecture. Secondly, we demonstrate everyday experiences from refugees’ vis‐á‐vis relevant institutional opportunity structures in Germany. Our results show that inconsistencies within and between social policy fields of one welfare state have to be taken into consideration for further national and transnational research.Cogitatio2022-03-22info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i1.4646oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4646Social Inclusion; Vol 10, No 1 (2022): Transnational Social Protection: Inclusion for Whom? Theoretical Reflections and Migrant Experiences; 217-2262183-2803reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/4646https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i1.4646https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/4646/4646Copyright (c) 2022 Katrin Menke, Andrea Rumpelhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessMenke, KatrinRumpel, Andrea2022-12-20T11:00:02Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4646Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:21:33.210127Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Who Belongs, and How Far? Refugees and Bureaucrats Within the German Active Welfare State
spellingShingle Who Belongs, and How Far? Refugees and Bureaucrats Within the German Active Welfare State
Menke, Katrin
active social citizenship; belonging; health policy; labor market policy; migration policy; female refugees; social policy; welfare states
title_short Who Belongs, and How Far? Refugees and Bureaucrats Within the German Active Welfare State
title_full Who Belongs, and How Far? Refugees and Bureaucrats Within the German Active Welfare State
title_fullStr Who Belongs, and How Far? Refugees and Bureaucrats Within the German Active Welfare State
title_full_unstemmed Who Belongs, and How Far? Refugees and Bureaucrats Within the German Active Welfare State
title_sort Who Belongs, and How Far? Refugees and Bureaucrats Within the German Active Welfare State
author Menke, Katrin
author_facet Menke, Katrin
Rumpel, Andrea
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author2 Rumpel, Andrea
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Menke, Katrin
Rumpel, Andrea
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv active social citizenship; belonging; health policy; labor market policy; migration policy; female refugees; social policy; welfare states
topic active social citizenship; belonging; health policy; labor market policy; migration policy; female refugees; social policy; welfare states
description Concepts such as “belonging” (Yuval‐Davis, 2011) and “community of value” (Anderson, 2013) try to capture the multiple ways of classifying migrants. In this article, we argue that belonging needs to be analyzed against the backdrop of active social citizenship in European welfare states. Although the literature acknowledges the increasing links between migration and social policies, the latest “turn to activation” in social policy has hardly been accounted for. By focusing on two policy fields in Germany, the labor market and health policies, we briefly describe discourses and social right entitlements and their ambivalences. Empirically we show (a) how bureaucrats within the two policy fields regulate and justify refugees’ social rights in practice and (b) how refugees act vis‐à‐vis relevant institutional opportunity structures. Our study contributes to previous research twofold: Firstly, we illustrate processes of positioning and selecting refugees that stem from recent social policy architecture. Secondly, we demonstrate everyday experiences from refugees’ vis‐á‐vis relevant institutional opportunity structures in Germany. Our results show that inconsistencies within and between social policy fields of one welfare state have to be taken into consideration for further national and transnational research.
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