Review: Sylvia Keim (2003). "So richtig deutsch wird man nie sein ..." – Junge Migrantinnen und Migranten in Deutschland. Zwischen Integration und Ausgrenzung ["You Will Never Be Truly German ... "—Young Migrants in Germany. Between Integration and Exclusion]

Authors

  • Andreas Klärner Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-5.3.577

Keywords:

xenophobia, migration, integration, narrative and problem-centered interview

Abstract

Young Migrants in Germany have to face multiple forms of xenophobia and exclusion. Sylvia KEIM deals with the effects that these have on young migrants' lifeworld and identity formation. She conducted qualitative interviews with five members of the second generation of migrants. Despite their formal "integration", they are often marginalized by their foreign background and, therefore, treated as second class citizens, strongly affecting their self-esteem. KEIM analyses these experiences using the concept of stigmatization which was introduced by Erving GOFFMAN. The interviewees have found several ways of stigma-management: first of all, to ignore the stigma, which is—superficially at least—quite effective, second to correct or hide the stigma by trying to behave and look like "normal" Germans, and third, to distance themselves from German society, resulting in a vicious circle of exclusion and self-exclusion. KEIM's study represents a pioneer work in a widely ignored field of research. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0403131

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Author Biography

Andreas Klärner, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung

Andreas KLÄRNER, Dipl.-Soz., Studium der Soziologie, Psychologie, Stadtplanung in Darmstadt, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung (Arbeitsbereich Nation & Gesellschaft), derzeit Promotion zum Dr. phil. In FQS hat Andreas KLÄRNER auch das Buch "Fremdenfeindliche Gewalttäter. Biografien und Tatverläufe" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-03/3-03review-klaerner-d.htm) (herausgegeben von Wolfgang FRINDTE & Jörg NEUMANN) und "Männlichkeitskonstruktionen in der Freiheitlichen Partei Österreichs" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-04/2-04review-klaerner-d.htm) (von Oliver GEDEN) besprochen. KLÄRNER ist Mitbetreiber der "Mailingliste Rechtsextremismusforschung" (http://www.rechtsextremismusforschung.de/).

Published

2004-09-30

How to Cite

Klärner, A. (2004). Review: Sylvia Keim (2003). "So richtig deutsch wird man nie sein ." – Junge Migrantinnen und Migranten in Deutschland. Zwischen Integration und Ausgrenzung ["You Will Never Be Truly German . "—Young Migrants in Germany. Between Integration and Exclusion]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 5(3). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-5.3.577