Marginal Utility or Value Added?

Marginal Utility or Value Added?

Institute for Work and Technology

Saskia Dankwart, Anita Pöltl

Migrant Citizenship in EU-Regions

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Agenda:

• Introduction

• Process of Identification

• Contributions of Migrants in Their Respective Host Society

• Importance for a Dialogue with the EU

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• Migration as a result of globalization• Migrants might lose their identity

• Question: What is the potential of Migrants in companies and society?

• Before: Migrants have to rebuild an identity in their new home country. But how do we build an identity in a new place?

Place Identity

Introduction

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Agenda:

• Introduction

• Process of Identification

• Contributions of Migrants in Their Respective Host Society

•Importance for a Dialogue with the EU

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• How can identity be understood in this context?

• C. F. Graumann: On multiple Identies, 1983

Identity

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Processes of Identification - Graumann

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Agenda:

• Introduction

• Process of Identification

• Contributions of Migrants in Their Respective Host Society

•Importance for a Dialogue with the EU

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Advantages of migrants in their respective host society

Function/field Culture Politics Economy

Contingency Function

Norms Laws, Positions Social Capital

MiddlemanFunction

Culture Associations, Gastronomy

Minorities,‘ambassadors‘

Trade, remittancies

Strategic Function Multilingualism Problem solving Innovation

Diversification Function

Film, music, literature

Political organizations

Ethnic Entrepreneurship

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Agenda:

• Introduction

• Process of Identification

• Contributions of Migrants in Their Respective Host Society

• Importance for a Dialogue with the EU

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How can the EU respond?

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Thank you for your attention!

Saskia Dankwart Anita Pöltl

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• Graumann, C. F. (1983): On Multiple Identities. In: International Social Science Journal, H. 35, S. 309–321.

• Weichhart, Peter (Hg.) (1990): Raumbezogene Identität. Bausteine zu einer Theorie räumlich-sozialer Kognition und Identifikation. Stuttgart: Steiner (Erdkundliches Wissen, 102).

• Werthmöller, Ewald (1995): Räumliche Identität als Aufgabenfeld des Städte- und Regionenmarketing. Ein Beitrag zur Fundierung des Placemarketing. Univ., Diss.- Münster (Westfalen), 1994. Frankfurt am Main: Lang (Schriften zu Marketing und Management, 24).

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