Ambiguous goals, uneven implementation – how immigration offices shape internal immigration control in Germany

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Internal displacement
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Outsourcing to private actors
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • Germany