No Country for Migrants? Critical Perspectives on Asylum, Immigration, and Integration in Germany.

Intro -- No Country for Migrants? Critical Perspectives on Asylum, Immigration, and Integration in Germany -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The 2015 German Refugee Crisis as an Event -- 1 From Political to Metaphysical Multiple Conceptualizations of the Event -- 2 Syria The Supernumerary of an Evental Site -- 3 Undecidability and the Edge of the Void -- 4 Interventional Gestures -- 5 Transcendental Arrangements -- 2 An Abbreviated History of Germany's Migration Discourses and Policies -- 1 Historiographical Omissions and Sociological Exclusions -- 2 Bismarck, Leutenot, and the Early Securitization of Migration -- 3 Weber and the Empowerment of Nationalistic Audiences -- 4 Of C2, 3P, and Muddling through Regulating Securitized Migration -- 3 Soft and Hard: Power, Asylum, and Germany -- 1 Soft Power Meets Asylum -- 2 The 'Objective' Soft Power of a Reluctant Hegemon -- 3 The Duality of Soft Power on Asylum -- 4 Hard and Economic Power in Migration Control -- 4 On Language, Integration, and Pedagogy -- 1 Language, Structuralist Linguistics, and Integration -- 2 The Language Testing Regime and Its Discontent -- 3 Challenges in Acquiring German as a Second Language, and Integration -- 4 Toward Radical Perspectives on the Pedagogy of Integration -- 5 Jacotot's Method and Second Language Acquisition -- 5 Civilization-Culture-Character: the Plateaus of the 'Clash Rhizome' -- 1 Civilization in the Clash Rhizome -- 2 The German Reception of the Clash of Civilizations -- 3 Culture in the Clash Rhizome -- 4 Character between Affects and Late Modernity and Capitalism -- 6 The "Deep Story" of the Elder Son -- 1 The Prodigal Son in the Biblical Narrative -- 2 The Younger Son's Revolutionary Wager -- 3 The Father and the Cost of Humanitarian Largesse.

4 Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and the 'Anger and Mourning' of the Elder Son -- 7 'Muslim Girls' and 'Muslim Men': Cursory Notes on Entangled Subalternities -- 1 'Muslim Women' and Epistemic Violence -- 2 Migration and (Post) Colonial Path Dependency -- 3 'Muslim Men' and a Critique of Patriarchal Reason -- Bibliography -- Index.

In No Country for Migrants? Critical Perspectives on Asylum, Immigration, and Integration in Germany Wilfried Zoungrana uses critical theories and his professional experience to reflect on immigration, societal integration, and the shifting socio-political coordinates in Germany.

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