In search of a caring state: Migrations of Afghans from Iran to Germany

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1177/0308275X221120170

Sara Lenehan

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Abstract

When Afghans began fleeing war in the 1980s, the Iranian state welcomed them on an ethical premise of care towards fellow Muslims. However, since the 1990s, Iran has pursued exclusionary policies towards their Afghan population. Drawing on fieldwork among Afghan asylum-seekers who arrived in Germany from Iran, this article shows how fantasies of alternative social contracts can motivate migration, and shape relationships with host states in the aftermath. Afghan migrants hoped to ‘opt in’ to a relationship with the German state, which they imagined as more ‘caring’ than the Iranian one. However, in Germany, they were granted limited rights, and only after substantial conditions were fulfilled. Afghans’ interpretations of these outcomes reveal fears and assumptions around state–citizen relations, which they had carried over from Iran, and which informed their reimagination of the German state post-migration.

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寻找一个有爱心的国家:阿富汗人从伊朗移民到德国

当阿富汗人在20世纪80年代开始逃离战争时，伊朗政府以关心穆斯林同胞的道德前提欢迎他们。然而，自20世纪90年代以来，伊朗对其阿富汗人口实行排斥政策。本文通过对从伊朗抵达德国的阿富汗寻求庇护者的实地调查，展示了对另类社会契约的幻想如何激励移民，并在移民后塑造与东道国的关系。阿富汗移民希望“选择加入”与德国的关系，他们认为德国比伊朗更“关心”。然而，在德国，只有在满足了实质性条件之后，他们才被授予有限的权利。阿富汗人对这些结果的解释揭示了他们对国家与公民关系的恐惧和假设，这是他们从伊朗继承下来的，并使他们重新想象了移民后的德国国家。

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Critique of Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY-

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3.50

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期刊介绍： Critique of Anthropology is dedicated to the development of anthropology as a discipline that subjects social reality to critical analysis. It publishes academic articles and other materials which contribute to an understanding of the determinants of the human condition, structures of social power, and the construction of ideologies in both contemporary and past human societies from a cross-cultural and socially critical standpoint. Non-sectarian, and embracing a diversity of theoretical and political viewpoints, COA is also committed to the principle that anthropologists cannot and should not seek to avoid taking positions on political and social questions.