How Activating Integration Policies and Residence Regulations Foster Dependencies in Companies – The Example of Forced Migrants with a Toleration Status

Abstract

"Societies stratify migrants, and thus also forced migrants, hierarchically. Depending on their residence status, forced migrants are unequally positioned in this civic stratification – with unequal access to rights and residence security. Since the beginning of the 21st century, Germany has increasingly linked forced migrants’ access to more rights and residence security to their success in the employment system. The article discusses these activating integration policies using the example of young trainees with precarious toleration status. In order to reduce their risk of being deported and to enhance their future prospects in Germany, these people have to participate successfully in vocational training. Therefore, activating integration policies and corresponding residence regulations structurally foster dependencies in companies – this is the article’s central message which applies not only to tolerated people, but, in a modified way, also to other groups of forced migrants. This development challenges research as well as practice." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Nomos) ((en))

Cite article

Schreyer, F., Bauer, A. & Getu Lakew, S. (2022): Wie aktivierende Integrationspolitik und Aufenthaltsrecht betriebliche Abhängigkeitsverhältnisse stärken – das Beispiel von Geflüchteten mit Duldungsstatus. In: Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung, Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 122-139. DOI:10.5771/2509-9485-2022-1-122