ABSTRACT
Despite this emergent diversity, Germany has refused to define an immigration policy, regarding itself instead as a non-immigration country – kein Einwanderungsland. An immigration policy would dismantle the system of investigating the case of each individual newcomer after his or her arrival in Germany, and entail instead an entitlement to citizenship and equal participation in civil society for a specified number of people. A debate on reviewing German citizenship policy and on strategies of social inclusion for non-German newcomers and their second and third generation offspring is, however, currently under way.
