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Whither Willkommenskultur? : national identity discourses and the arrival of refugees in Germany in 2015/16
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1369-183X; 1469-9451
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Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 2024, OnlineFirst
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KROPP, Selma Luise, MINATTI, Wolfgang, Whither Willkommenskultur? : national identity discourses and the arrival of refugees in Germany in 2015/16, Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 2024, OnlineFirst - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76280
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How do media discourses on German national identity differ before and after the arrival of refugees in 2015/16? National identity discourses are often closely linked to immigration dynamics, inter alia due to boundary making through the othering of immigrants. While this relation is well documented in the case of Germany, scholars have yet to study how the arrival of refugees in 2015/16 has been integrated in discourses on national identity in more detail. In this paper, we conduct an inductive qualitative content analysis of Die ZEIT, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Bild am Sonntag in 2014 and 2019 and find an important shift within the media representation of German national identity. While in 2014, a self-understanding of Germany as an immigration country dominated the media landscape, by 2019, national identity discourses became more fragmented and neither the idea of a tolerant Germany nor the idea of an anti-immigration Germany clearly dominated. Based on this analysis, we argue that 2015/16 can be understood as a turning point for discourses on German national identity.
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Published online: 08 January 2024