For some years, the German public has been debating the case of migrant workers receiving German benefits for children living abroad, which has been scandalised as a case of “benefit tourism.” This points to a failure to recognise a striking imbalance between the output of the German welfare state to migrants and the input it receives from migrant domestic workers. In this article I discuss how this input is being rendered invisible or at least underappreciated by sexist, racist, and classist practices of othering. To illustrate the point, I will use examples from two empirical research projects that looked into how families in Germany outsource various forms of reproductive work to both female and male migrants from Eastern Europe. Drawing on the concept of othering developed in feminist and postcolonial literature and their ideas of how privileges and disadvantages are interconnected, I will put this example into the context of literature on racism, gender, and care work migration. I show how migrant workers fail to live up to the normative standards of work, family life, and gender relations and norms set by a sedentary society. A complex interaction of supposedly “natural” and “objective” differences between “us” and “them” are at work to justify everyday discrimination against migrants and their institutional exclusion. These processes are also reflected in current political and public debates on the commodification and transnationalisation of care.

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让移民的投入不可见：多层次视角下特权与他者的交叉点

多年来，德国公众一直在争论移民工人为居住在国外的儿童领取德国福利的案例，这被称为“福利旅游”案例。这表明未能认识到德国福利国家对移民的产出与其从移民家庭工人那里获得的投入之间的显着不平衡。在这篇文章中，我讨论了这种输入是如何被性别歧视、种族主义和阶级歧视的其他行为所掩盖或至少被低估的。为了说明这一点，我将使用两个实证研究项目中的例子来研究德国家庭如何将各种形式的生殖工作外包给来自东欧的女性和男性移民。借鉴女权主义和后殖民文学中发展起来的“他者”概念以及他们关于特权和劣势如何相互关联的观点，我将把这个例子置于关于种族主义、性别和护理工作迁移的文学背景中。我展示了移民工人如何无法达到久坐不动的社会设定的工作、家庭生活、性别关系和规范的规范标准。“我们”和“他们”之间所谓的“自然”和“客观”差异的复杂相互作用正在发挥作用，证明对移民的日常歧视和制度排斥是正当的。这些过程也反映在当前关于护理商品化和跨国化的政治和公共辩论中。和护理工作迁移。我展示了移民工人如何无法达到久坐不动的社会设定的工作、家庭生活、性别关系和规范的规范标准。“我们”和“他们”之间所谓的“自然”和“客观”差异的复杂相互作用正在发挥作用，证明对移民的日常歧视和制度排斥是正当的。这些过程也反映在当前关于护理商品化和跨国化的政治和公共辩论中。和护理工作迁移。我展示了移民工人如何无法达到久坐不动的社会设定的工作、家庭生活、性别关系和规范的规范标准。“我们”和“他们”之间所谓的“自然”和“客观”差异的复杂相互作用正在发挥作用，证明对移民的日常歧视和制度排斥是正当的。这些过程也反映在当前关于护理商品化和跨国化的政治和公共辩论中。“我们”和“他们”之间所谓的“自然”和“客观”差异的复杂相互作用正在发挥作用，证明对移民的日常歧视和制度排斥是正当的。这些过程也反映在当前关于护理商品化和跨国化的政治和公共辩论中。“我们”和“他们”之间所谓的“自然”和“客观”差异的复杂相互作用正在发挥作用，证明对移民的日常歧视和制度排斥是正当的。这些过程也反映在当前关于护理商品化和跨国化的政治和公共辩论中。