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The German asylum-deportation regime has persistently reproduced racialised hierarchies within the political economy of labour, constituting refugees as disposable workers, and its current authoritarian turn represents a reconfiguration of this historical racial regime rather than a rupture. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine how the German asylum and deportation apparatus operates within racialised capitalism across three major political-economic conjunctures from the 1970s to the post-2015 era.

September 2, 2026Citizenship StudiesOpen Access

The (West) German asylum-deportation regime and racialised capitalism

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AKAino KorvensyrjäUniversity of Helsinki

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Historical analysis reveals persistent racialised labour hierarchies in the German asylum system, suggesting deportation regimes continuously produce disposable workforces under global capitalism.

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To examine how the German asylum and deportation apparatus operates within racialised capitalism across three major political-economic conjunctures from the 1970s to the post-2015 era.
Conducted a historical and structural analysis synthesizing empirical literature and administrative data on German asylum and deportation policies.
Evaluated three distinct historical periods: neoliberal austerity in the 1970s–1980s, reunification and European integration in the 1990s–2000s, and post-2015 border reconfigurations.
The asylum-deportation apparatus persistently reinforced racialised labor hierarchies across all periods, converting asylum seekers into expendable and disposable labor pools.
The contemporary authoritarian turn in border enforcement represents a structural reconfiguration of the existing racial regime rather than an unprecedented break from historical precedent.

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Aino Korvensyrjä (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e237c562ede874ec6420 https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2026.2707449

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Historical analysis reveals persistent racialised labour hierarchies in the German asylum system, suggesting deportation regimes continuously produce disposable workforces under global capitalism.

The (West) German asylum-deportation regime and racialised capitalism

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The (West) German asylum-deportation regime and racialised capitalism

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