ABSTRACT

Addressing research on migration governance, this article examines German pre-integration courses offered to Turkish marriage migrants in Istanbul. The courses were implemented in response to growing concern about the perceived poor integration of Muslim migrants and a high number of forced marriages. I argue that these courses are a micro form of biopolitical governance. Specifically, they are an attempt to generate internalized ways of being and knowing that are desired by the state, which I call ‘membership cultivation.’ As such, the courses are not precisely aimed at restricting migration as in other pre-integration measures, nor are they mainly reinforcing symbolic boundaries and teaching liberalism as in post-migration German civic integration courses. Rather, the courses attempt to re-make migrants with regards to morality, culture and gender. Using participant observation and in-depth interviews, this research examines the disciplinary mechanisms targeting migrants’ transformation to enhance our understanding of the biopolitics of pre-integration governance.

摘要

针对移民治理研究，本文考察了在伊斯坦布尔为土耳其婚姻移民提供的德国预融合课程。这些课程的实施是为了应对人们对感知到的日益增长的关注穆斯林移民融入不良和大量强迫婚姻。我认为这些课程是生命政治治理的微观形式。具体来说，它们是一种尝试产生国家所渴望的内在化的存在方式和认知方式，我称之为“会员培养”。因此，这些课程并不像其他融入前的措施那样精确地旨在限制移民，也不是像移民后的德国公民融入课程那样主要加强象征性边界和教授自由主义。相反，这些课程试图在道德、文化和性别方面重新塑造移民。本研究通过参与观察和深度访谈，考察了针对移民转型的惩戒机制，以加深我们对融合前治理的生命政治的理解。