CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Steinbach, Merith |
|---|---|
| Title | Selecting by Skills: An Analysis of German Parliamentary Debates |
| Summary | Secondary literature on migration management does not consider the role of ethnicity in the policy-making process and the categorisation of labour migrants. This thesis aims to fill this gap by answering the following question: How were the categories of the high-skilled, skilled and low-skilled labour migrants discursively constructed, justified and legitimised in the German parliament and what role did ethnicity play in the construction of these categories? A discourse analysis on German parliamentary debates between 2003 and 2012 was applied, in order to uncover the framing of migrant categories. This analysis provided evidence that economic considerations replaced ethnic concerns in the admission of highly-skilled immigrants |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi, Szabolcs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/steinbach_merith.pdf |
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