Migration, Wettbewerbsstaat und Europäisierung. Zur Verschärfung der Migrationspolitik in der Ära der Globalisierung

Abstract

The article deals with issues of migration and migrant rights in Germany and Europe. Even if many scholars have elucidated with convincing clarity that Western nation states can improve migrant’s rights due to the autonomy of the legal system, this paper’s focus is to point out a cotemporary opposite process. Because of the transformation of the former welfare states to ‘competition states’ migration policies are now likely subsumed under the principle of competitive advantage. In this article I reaffirm that steering migration process has to be understood still in terms of the nation state and the economic conditions of these states.