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Exploring the Intersecting Impact of Gender and Citizenship on Spatial and Academic Career Mobility

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The above two epigraphs pinpoint just how fundamentally Germany’s official discourse about (not) being a country of immigration has changed in the matter of only a decade. Then-Minister of Interior Wolfgang Schäuble repeated the long-lived, common official understanding of German nationhood as not a country of immigration, as many other politicians have done. Despite Germany’s historical experience of receiving a large number of migrants in both the distant and more recent past (Bade 2000; Hoerder 2002), his statement reaffirmed the widespread discourse that Germany has formally maintained its stance of no new labour recruitment, the principle that has been in place since the ending of its guest-worker programme in the mid-1970s (Brubaker 1992; Pries 2012; Thränhardt 1992).

We have never been a country of immigration and until today we are not one.… [D]ifferent from a country of immigration like Canada, Germany has never selectively sought after migrants and recruited people with occupations in demand.

(Wolfgang Schäuble quoted by Dernbach 2006, translated by Shinozaki)

‘Make it in Germany’ is the multilingual ‘Welcome to Germany’ portal for international qualified professionals.… [It] informs qualified professionals who are interested in informing about their career prospects and shows them how to organize their move to Germany – and what makes it worthwhile to live and work here.… ‘Make it in Germany’… is the expression of a whole ‘culture of welcome’. It portrays Germany as a modern, diverse society and helps convey the friendly, cosmopolitan nature of the country.

(BMWI et al. 2015)

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Shinozaki, K. (2016). Exploring the Intersecting Impact of Gender and Citizenship on Spatial and Academic Career Mobility. In: Triandafyllidou, A., Isaakyan, I. (eds) High-Skill Migration and Recession. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137467119_9

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