This article puts forced migration at the center of the Federal Republic's history. Forced migration to Germany has often been understood as an unprecedented crisis, but, far from being an aberration, such migration has been a necessary component of the classic legitimating narratives of the Federal Republic and a crucial support for its postwar “economic miracle.” The official reception of forced migrants has been structured by a categorical distinction between genuine refugees and ersatz “economic refugees.” The former are lauded for their economic contributions to Germany, whereas those alleged to have migrated mainly for economic reasons are condemned as fraudulent opportunists. These categories have been continually transposed onto new groups of forced migrants, whose arrival is invariably grasped as a crisis. The unfolding of refugee “crises” and their resolutions have continually shown the artificiality of the distinction between genuine and economic refugees—while simultaneously redrawing it.

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1949 年德意志联邦共和国的永久难民危机——

本文将强迫移民置于联邦共和国历史的中心。被迫移民到德国通常被认为是一场前所未有的危机，但这种移民绝非一种失常，而是联邦共和国经典合法化叙事的必要组成部分，也是其战后“经济奇迹”的关键支持。对强迫移民的官方接待是通过对真正的难民和假冒的“经济难民”的分类区分来构建的。前者因其对德国的经济贡献而受到称赞，而那些据称主要出于经济原因移民的人则被谴责为欺诈的机会主义者。这些类别不断被转移到新的被迫移民群体上，他们的到来总是被认为是一场危机。