German citizenship law defines national belonging through racial blood descent

Evidence

The former is imagined to have a “substance” available to the latter only through some more readily questionable idealist metaphysics. German law, for instance, establishes German national belonging only in virtue of marking nationhood in racial terms. German origin is defined as the claim to German blood. Belonging to the nation is a matter not just of being born in Germany but of being born to parents whose blood or genes awkwardly are C’onsidered “to run German,” who in that sense are “racially” German. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1716

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the blood/soil logic of citizenship and jus sanguinis legal traditions — relevant to debates about immigrant integration in Germany. — connects to: Descent-based citizenship served to absorb millions of expelled Germans. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 183; Residence, not just descent, came to confer German citizenship. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 208; The FRG’s citizenship law unified diverse German groups by descent — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 183 (+1 more)
• ADDENDUM: German jus sanguinis citizenship as a state-racialized border regime parallels the tamarisk/national-infrastructure theme of ‘Grafting & Growth’ minus the grafting — closer to how nations are built on bloodlines rather than living bridges.