Post-migrant society

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The post- migrant society (from the Latin post 'behind', 'after') describes a social order that is shaped by the experience of migration . The term refers to the political, cultural and social changes in society that result from the demographic change caused by immigration . From this perspective, migration is seen as a process that makes a significant contribution to shaping society.

In the course of the social debate about migration, refugee and integration policy , Naika Foroutan demanded at the beginning of 2018 “a clearly post-migrant perspective in which the federal government no longer focuses only on migrants, but also on those groups that are weak and separate from the state and alienate democracy because they lack all opportunities for advancement . "

According to Foroutan, post-migrant societies have five characteristics:

  1. The political recognition of being an immigration society.
  2. Social, cultural, structural and emotional processes of negotiation about the rights, belonging and participation of migrants and non-migrants as well as the resulting laws and changes in legislation.
  3. Ambivalent assessment of immigration: approval and rejection.
  4. Integration of people and organizations with and without migration reference.
  5. Polarization over issues of belonging and national identity .

term

The term postmigrant became known in Germany through the Berlin theater director Şermin Langhoff , when she named her Ballhaus Naunynstrasse theater “Postmigrantisches Theater”. Langhoff was concerned with the stories and perspectives of those "who have not migrated themselves but bring this migration background with them as personal knowledge and collective memory".

In the German-speaking area, the term has since established itself in public debates as an “objection to the hegemonic migration and integration debate” and it has recently also been discussed in migration research. The prefix »post« makes it clear that one wants to leave behind a socially established and increasingly deficiently constructed distinctive category - namely the migrant - to explain social inequality.

See also

Portal: Migration and Integration  - Articles, categories and more on migration and flight, intercultural dialogue and integration

literature

  • Archive of youth cultures (ed.): KanakCultures: Culture and creativity of young migrants . Archive of Youth Cultures Verlag, 2010
  • Erol Yildiz, Marc Hill: After Migration: Postmigrant Perspectives Beyond the Parallel Society . transcript, 2014
  • Erol Yildiz , Marc Hill (ed.): Post-migrant visions. Experiences - ideas - reflections . transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-3916-2 ( Open Access )
  • Pinar Tuzcu: "I'm a Kanackin" Decolonizing Popfeminism. transcript, 2017
  • Naika Foroutan: Post-immigrant society. In: Heinz-Ulrich Brinkmann / Martina Sauer (ed.): Immigration Society Germany. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2016, pp. 227–254.
  • Naika Foroutan: The post-migrant society. A promise of plural democracy . transcript, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4263-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Germany is under considerable tension". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 27, 2018, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  2. ^ Naika Foroutan: Postmigrant Society . In: Heinz-Ulrich Brinkmann / Martina Sauer (eds.): Immigration society Germany . Springer, Wiesbaden 2016, p. 239-247 .
  3. ↑ a b Shermin Langhoff: The origin does not matter - “Postmigrantisches” theater in Ballhaus Naunynstraße. Federal Agency for Civic Education, March 10, 2011, accessed on January 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Migration: "This is the new Germany". In: berliner-zeitung.de. December 12, 2014, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  5. ^ Post-migrant Europe. Postcolonial World ( Memento from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), ETH Zurich, University of Zurich.
  6. ^ Naika Foroutan: Postmigrant Societies . In: Heinz-Ulrich Brinkmann / Martina Sauer (eds.): Immigration society Germany . Springer, Wiesbaden 2016, p. 231 .