적녹연정(1998-2005)의 이민정책: 이민법 제정을 둘러싼 정당간의 논쟁을 중심으로

Immigration Policy of Germany s Red-Green Alliance(1998-2005)

This study describes the alien and immigration policy of Germany s Red-Green Alliance(1998-2005) with a critical viewpoint by analyzing related legislation processes and debates among German political parties. In particular, Grüne and SPD s positions on immigration issues and policy intentions are reviewed and compared with those of other parties, and social implications of the immigration law that Red-Green Alliance formulated and enacted are analyzed. In the 1990s, Germany s immigration policy maintained a political rhetoric of not allowing immigration legally and officially. In reality, however, a paradoxical phenomenon happened and various forms of immigration took place. German political parties had difficulty in solving immigration issues rationally and realistically because they used alien issues as political tools to maintain or recover political power. The immigration policy shown in “Immigration Law”, which was enacted in 2004, focused on social integration for aliens. Yet it failed to bring a transition of paradigm in the field of labor immigration that could increase new immigrants. Germany s immigration policy allows the influx of alien labor power within limited categories of labor market policy, but it puts policy priority on encouraging aliens to stay in Germany for a short period of time and return to their countries rather than giving them citizenship and allowing them to stay for a long period of time. The German government s social integration policy did not recognize the cultural difference of aliens. It regarded integration as aliens adjusting to the German culture and value standards. The German government promotes an integration principle of “support and demand” and implements a double strategy of “selecting” or “excluding” aliens.