Publisher's Synopsis
In contrast to most migration studies that focus on specific 'foreigner' groups in Germany, this study simultaneously compares and contrasts the legal, political, social, and economic opportunity structures facing diverse categories of the ethnic minorities who have settled in the country since the 1950s. It reveals the contradictory, and usually self-defeating, nature of German policies intended to keep 'migrants' out'allegedly in order to preserve a German Leitkultur (with which very few of its own citizens still identify). The main barriers to effective integration'and socio-economic revitalization in general'sooner lie in the country's obsolete labor market regulations and bureaucratic procedures.
