As Germany's structural shortages on the labor market grow, attracting labor migrants has become an important policy goal. In positing migration as a ‘solution’ to current and future demographic changes, this policy offers a discursive shift toward what is commonly called „migration celebration narrative“. Despite being seemingly positive in nature, migration celebration narratives speak about migrants rather than with migrants. Based on ten focus groups with participants of diverse migration and non-migration biographies, the talk examines how the migration celebration narrative is received by different segments of Germany’s postmigrant society.
Organisation: Lower Saxony Research Area ›Futures of Migration‹ (FuturMig)
