The project analyses the functioning of the visa in German law, understood as an infrastructure of production of (im-)mobility in the form of a preventive management of access and residence of foreign nationals. The study consists, on the one hand, of an examination of the legal and visa-related history from 1867 to 1990, a period during which visa requirements and the character of the visa repeatedly changed. On the other hand, the project includes a legal-sociological study of the intended and achieved steering effects of the legal regulations since the Aliens Act 1990.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
