Immigration Control in United Germany: Toward a Broader Scope of National Policies

Abstract

According to the mainstream literature on globalization and international migration, the nation-state's ability to manage immigration pressures has been massively reduced in recent decades. Contrary to this view, this article demonstrates that immigration control based on national structures may still work successfully if governments broaden their approach to the problem and make it a topic of all areas of policy, including foreign affairs and economic policy. A survey of German migration policy since reunification is given as an example of basically effective immigration control by government action adapting to the new challenges in the field.