A single 1993 asylum law both conceded to xenophobia and seeded a pro-immigration reaction

Evidence

The 1993 law limiting the right of asylum gratuitously capitulated to anti-foreign sentiment without addressing the status of foreign residents. … Nevertheless the same law, which made citizenship for ‘late resettlers’ more difficult to obtain, acknowledged the re-emergence of a pro-immigration coalition in response to the attacks on foreigners that would bear fruit by the end of the decade. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 212

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s interest in whether moral correction after threat-hardened backlash actually backfires or produces reform; the attacks-on-foreigners triggering a pro-immigration coalition parallels broader corrective-dynamics questions. — connects to: Germany’s constitutional guarantee of asylum was amended, sharply cutting asylum arrivals — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 538

Broader Connections

• Germany’s constitutional guarantee of asylum was amended, sharply cutting asylum arrivals #expands (0.90) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 538