Transnational interlacements of statistical categories marking natio-ethnic-cultural “others” in Germany

Transnational Social Review Pub Date : 2018-05-04 DOI:10.1080/21931674.2018.1458564

Annemarie Will

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Abstract Population statistics is a governmental tool to describe the composition of people living on a given national territory. For this purpose different categories are employed. These categories shape the discourse about natio-ethnic-cultural “others” and thus implicitly “us.” This article explores the influence of international statistics with the notion of transnational interlacements in the development of a new classificatory system for the population in Germany in 2007. The center of this new taxonomy is the concept of “migration background.” Using a hermeneutic reading of public policy concentrating on the microcensus and the Program of International Student Assessment (PISA) I show that the new categories are strongly interlaced with the international studies on students’ educational attainments and fuelled by academic discourse on a lack of visibility of certain population groups in official statistics. However, the transnational relation is not preventing a definition which is based on ethnic German descent. It excludes persons from the nation, marking them as natio-ethnic-cultural “others” through the category “persons with a migration background” even if they are born in Germany and have German citizenship.

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在德国，标志着民族、种族和文化“他者”的统计类别的跨国交错

人口统计是政府用来描述居住在特定国家领土上的人口构成的工具。为此目的，采用了不同的分类。这些范畴塑造了关于民族、种族、文化“他者”的话语，因此也隐含着“我们”。本文探讨了2007年德国人口新分类系统发展中跨国干涉概念对国际统计的影响。这个新分类法的中心是“移民背景”的概念。通过对关注微观人口普查和国际学生评估项目(PISA)的公共政策的解释性解读，我表明，新的分类与关于学生教育成就的国际研究紧密交织在一起，并受到官方统计数据中某些人口群体缺乏可见性的学术论述的推动。然而，跨国关系并不妨碍以德意志血统为基础的定义。它将人排除在国家之外，通过“具有移民背景的人”这一类别将他们标记为民族-种族-文化的“他者”，即使他们出生在德国并拥有德国公民身份。

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