Uncovering the hierachisation of migrants in Germany

A nation-state asserts regulatory power over its permanent and temporary population through the application of immigrant categories, which demarcate access to exclusive resources. The research projects assembled in this edt. volume investigate the legal and symbolic categorization of migrants, with the overarching purpose of identifying implicit social understandings of two migrant categories in particular: international students and survival migrants. The main concern of this volume is to observe how the perceptions of different migrant groups have unfolded, and by doing so it sheds light on the instances where legal and symbolic categories have become socially inseparable.