Recent scholarship on immigrant inclusivity in German politics has stated that the country and its parties have grown increasingly inclusive - although at a slow pace. In light of these claims and the implementation of the immigrant quota in the German Social Democratic Party in 2011, this study appraises the validity of such statements. We raise the question as to whether the migrant quota encourage tokenism or opens doors for migrant women in the SPD. In light of comparative research that has found that women are often fulfilling both gender and ethnic quotas, we aim to explore the upward mobility and the political powers that women migrant representatives obtain. In order to investigate these questions, we suggest bringing the three paradigms of diversity into feminist institutionalist analysis as benchmarks for evaluating intersectional inclusivity in political organizations.
