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Record Nr.

UNISA996582043803316

Autore

Kratzer Vinzenz (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Deutschland)

Titolo

Governmental Migration Research in Germany : Knowledge Production at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees / Vinzenz Kratzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

ISBN

3-8394-5709-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Classificazione

LB 56015

Disciplina

304.843

Soggetti

History

Germany Emigration and immigration Government policy

Allemagne Émigration et immigration Politique gouvernementale

Europe

Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- What Makes Knowledge Governmental? -- History of Governmental Migration Research -- Structural Conditions of Knowledge Production -- Analysis of Governmental Knowledge Production -- The Revenge of Practical Relevance -- Appendix

Sommario/riassunto

The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is the central executive authority on migration and integration policy in Germany. Vinzenz Kratzer analyses the Federal Office's research output between 2005 and 2015 with a joint perspective of Ethnography and Political Science.  In the wake of political reforms after the »paradigm change« around the turn of the millennium, the development of practically relevant knowledge can be traced. While governmental researchers were able to establish themselves in the bureaucracy with some success, they bought this influence with uncontroversial, depoliticized knowledge production, while the production of seemingly politically irrelevant knowledge - most importantly on racism and discrimination - is underdeveloped.