This article investigates the role of deservingness conceptions in the implementation of labour market access policies for migrants with precarious legal status. It explores how immigration officials frame the deservingness of work permit applicants, considering also the political, legal and societal context in which they work. The analysis takes account of the Control, Attitude, Reciprocity, Identity and Need (CARIN) criteria, and uses primary data of semi-structured interviews with senior officials in German municipal immigration offices. It finds that officials frequently employ deservingness frames inbuilt into the relevant parts of the law, but also behavioural norms that go beyond legal requirements. The article makes two main contributions. Providing empirical insight into the migration bureaucracy’s part in the implementation of labour market policy, it seeks to help advance understanding of the complex processes of differential in- and exclusion in countries of immigration. Furthermore, the research design allows putting the CARIN criteria to an empirical test.

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应得工作权？移民官员和德国的工作许可

本文探讨了应得性概念在为法律地位不稳定的移民实施劳动力市场准入政策中的作用。它探讨了移民官员如何界定工作许可申请人的应得性，同时考虑他们工作的政治、法律和社会背景。该分析考虑了控制、态度、互惠、身份和需求 (CARIN) 标准，并使用了与德国市政移民办公室高级官员进行半结构化访谈的原始数据。它发现，官员们经常采用内置于法律相关部分的应得框架，以及超出法律要求的行为规范。这篇文章有两个主要贡献。它提供了对移民官僚机构在实施劳动力市场政策中的经验见解，旨在帮助加深对移民国家差异化和排斥的复杂过程的理解。此外，研究设计允许对 CARIN 标准进行实证检验。