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Here you can find all the projects of the Goethe-Institut concerning the subjects migration and integration.

This dossier provides comprehensive information on immigration and integration in Germany, which can be controversial issues. It includes information on how immigration and asylum are regulated at the European level, as well as facts, figures and analyses of global migration trends.

This database of experts is managed by Network Migration in Europe. It contains information about experts in public and private organisations, universities and research institutes who deal with the subject of migration.

Focus Migration offers up-to-date figures, facts and analyses on the topics of immigration, flight and asylum and integration. Focus Migration consists of three core products – the newsletter "Migration und Bevölkerung" (migration and population), short dossiers and country profiles.

This website covers over 426 youth migration services in Germany.

migration-info.de provides up-to-date information on migration, integration, immigration policy and population development worldwide. Its focus is on Germany, Europe and North America. migration-info.de is a joint project by Network Migration in Europe and the Federal Centre for Political Education.

This website contains information on seminars, workshops, courses and conferences on the topics of labour migration, immigration and integration, anti-racism and anti-discrimination, intercultural cooperation, the law governing immigrants and citizenship, European law, international social security law, workplace integration, and other migration policy issues.

The Network Migration in Europe is an initiative of migration experts seeking to promote knowledge and understanding of migrations in European societies. The website contains advice on knowledge transfer and networking (newsletter, expert database), an online learning portal and educational materials, and a wealth of material about migration policy issues and the history of migration.

These pages provide a constantly updated source of information on issues concerning policy on immigrants, migration and refugees, on the function of the Representatives for Integration and other information in this area.

The Representative for Integration formulates the fundamental policy issues on immigrants and integration for the Berlin Senate and deals with measures for eliminating obstacles to integration. The site includes papers, project presentations, etc.

As the federal authority in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is responsible for areas including asylum decisions, integration and naturalisation of immigrants, advisory services for immigrants, project support and the administration of Germany’s Ausländerzentralregister (Central Register of Foreign Nationals).

CIM places managers and technical experts in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern and South Eastern Europe, and supports them with services and with subsidies to top up their local salaries. On behalf of its partners, CIM recruits experts from European Union countries on the German labour market, and also partner-country experts who have been educated in Germany and would like to return to their home countries. CIM’s mission is to support partners’ contributions to their countries’ development and the attainment of the goals set jointly by each partner country and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). CIM is supported and operated by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the German Federal Employment Agency (BA).

DIM-Net is the online information service of the Dokumentations- und Informations-Netzwerks FLUCHT & MIGRATION e.V. (documentation and information network on flight and migration). The association informs immigrants and German citizens of foreign origin about issues of residence, integration, multicultural society, onward migration and return, and human rights.

The efms is a scientific institute at the University of Bamberg. It is active in the fields of academic research, policy advice, public relations and documentation relating to migration/migration policy and integration in Germany and Europe.

The Research Centre for Intercultural Studies concentrates primarily on the thematic fields of migration and minorities. It has an interdisciplinary approach and formulates questions on living together in a migration society from a sociological, educational and political point of view.

The institute is an international centre for academic research and interdisciplinary exchange. With its specialized library and well-equipped work-rooms, the IMIS offers an ideal research environment to its members and to visiting scientists from Germany and abroad, postgraduates and assistant scientists working on a project. The website contains links to national and international institutes working in the field of migration, as well as a series of publications.

The Chair of Sociology/Organisation, Migration, Participation (SOZOMM) carries out research in the following disciplines: work and industrial sociology, the sociology of organisations and migration sociology within comparative social sciences. Research and teaching focus on (international) economic organisations, transnationalism and migration (preconditions, forms and impacts), labour regulation, employment and participation, particularly codetermination.

The institute researches diversity in historical and modern societies, with particular focus on ethnic and religious processes. Its research is focused not only on migration-related contexts (in so-called countries of origin, transit and destination), but also on societies characterised by different types of diversity.

The Council of Migration is a nation-wide association of scientists focusing on migration and integration. Since 2000 it has published its biannual migration-report and since April 2007 the "Political Essays on Migration and Integration" which can be downloaded from the council's homepage.

The objective of the Centre for Studies on Turkey is to promote the level of knowledge and raise public awareness in Germany about Turkey and Turkish migrants as well as immigrants from other countries.

The Council’s mandate comprises the preparation of expert reports and trend analyses, critical monitoring of political and policy debates, and the provision of impartial information to the public on integration and migration policy issues. Its objective and scientifically robust analyses form the basis for its policy recommendations. The Council produces annual reports, appraisals and statements on integration and migration policy issues and trends.

The Center for Intercultural Studies (ZIS) is located at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. The center's approximately 100 researchers in the humanities and social sciences study intercultural encounters and seek to bridge the gap between research on one hand and policy making and ethnic minorities on the other.

The International Placement Services are the main point of contact within the German Federal Employment Agency for the international labour market and help German companies recruit foreign workers. The website includes pages about Germany, its country and people, education, current labour market trends, and a wealth of information about living and working in Germany.

The Migration Policy Group is an independent non-profit European organisation committed to contributing to lasting and positive change resulting in open and inclusive societies in which all members have equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities in developing the economic, social and civic life of Europe's diverse societies. MPG stimulates well-informed European policy debate, cooperation and action to achieve this goal in the three programme areas of Migration & Mobility, Anti-discrimination & Equality and Diversity & Integration. 

The aim of the Centre for Multiculturalism and Integration (ZMI) is to improve language skills, with a particular focus on children and teenagers with a migration background and from socially disadvantaged families in the Cologne area. The Centre currently encompasses 44 initiatives, projects and institutions and promotes an exchange of knowledge, ideas and experience. ZMI aims to facilitate, coordinate, advise on and initiate interaction between projects and initiatives on language development, multilingualism and integration in Cologne. Its establishment reflects the belief that multilingualism offers new perspectives for society and that language learning should therefore be a goal for everyone. 

What drives young Africans to search for a new life in Europe? How do they get there? And do their dreams come true? The 15-part "Destination Europe" series goes inside the real lives of African migrants and follows them from the moment they decide to leave their home to their experiences in Europe.

Which teenagers feel they have been socially excluded or disadvantaged, which feel more integrated? With the aid of this teaching program schoolchildren can examine the experiences their fellow classmates have been through at their school concerning exclusion and integration. This of course reveals just how difficult it is for young people from immigrant backgrounds to take part in school life. The team project “Researching with GrafStat” is being carried out by the University of Münster in collaboration with the bpb -Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education). All the relevant information and materials are available free of charge online from the bpb website.

“History Remix” is an audio walk in the form of an audio play about migrant labour and its significance for the City of Munich, bringing together memories, photographic material, anecdotes and literature. The walk is available for download as a podcast to an MP3 player or mobile phone free of charge and lasts around 2.5 hours, taking the listener on a stroll through the city to sites of relevance to migration history.

The intercultural map is designed to depict Augsburg’s multi-ethnic population in a way that people can see and experience for themselves. The image and cultural life of the city is characterised by the multi-ethnic population structure, but the structure itself is often not immediately apparent to people.

With globalisation and increasing migration, multilingualism is critical to intercultural understanding and social cohesion, job prospects for individuals and competitiveness in Europe. Language Rich Europe conducts an analysis of policies and practices on multilingualism across 20 European countries and compares the results against European recommendations. With this analysis as a basis, Language Rich Europe will create a new and sustainable interdisciplinary network of over 1200 decision makers across Europe, who will be brought together to share knowledge and good practice in multilingualism.

MigMap provides a picture of how and where knowledge “production” currently takes place in the area of migration and who is participating and involved. It investigates how exactly the new forms of suprastate government, such as can be observed in the European migration regime, function.

The MAA is a (primarily internet-based) collection of narrated migration stories – 100 of them to start with. In this growing audio archive, migration stories, stories of migrants, biographies and migration history are "archived" and brought to life for the public.

The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) is a reference guide and fully interactive tool to assess, compare and improve integration policy. It applies specific criteria to measure integration policies in all EU Member States and four other non-EU countries. Indicators include labour market access, family reunion, long-term residence, political participation, access to nationality, and anti-discrimination.

This project fosters cross-disciplinary research which addresses Germany's changing cultural identity in the era of migration and globalization.

The people involved in the "International Gardens" are German and immigrant families and individuals with very different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and with different social milieus, ways of life and ages. Through organic gardening, craft work, language and literacy courses and self-designed environmental education work, the project members find new fields of activity and experience.

TRANSIT MIGRATION is a joint project by researchers, film makers, media activists and artists and is designed to be a multi-disciplinary research, film, sound and exhibition project. It researches the transformation of Europe through the movements of transnational migration beyond EU borders and questions the depictability/depiction of this reality in academic discourse, in the media and in art.

Ballhaus Naunynstraße is a translocal theatre space which serves as a “crystallisation point” for artists from (post-) migrant communities and beyond, founded in 2008 by artistic director Shermin Langhoff with the support of Fatih Akin. The theatre has no ensemble of its own, but features familiar faces, names and attitudes in a constant search for innovation and a broadening of perspectives based on fractured and fragmented memories. This post-migrant theatre is more than just a temporary phenomenon: it is a permanent platform for experimentation, crossing and re-crossing the boundary between the aesthetic and the socio-cultural space. 

DOMiD e.V. was founded in 1990 by Turkish academics and others in order to document and preserve the history of migration from Turkey. Since 2002 DOMiD e.V. has been extending its activities to all immigrant groups from the former recruitment countries of the Federal Republic of Germany and countries that had signed treaties with the German Democratic Republic. This social and cultural history collection includes all kinds of documents and objects. The archive is open to the public.

This Online Museum invites the visitor to take a multimedia tour through the history of migration in Germany. Like history itself, the Museum – the first of its kind – is a living and ever-evolving process, which examines the issue of migration through the medium of permanent and temporary online exhibitions. “Lebenswege” combines history with a focus on young people with a migration background, whose knowledge, openness and understanding can contribute to fruitful intercultural dialogue. As well as numerous dossiers on the history of migration in Germany, “Lebensweg”e focuses on the personal experiences of migrants themselves, including many in the public eye. The website also provides information about integration policy, academic studies, campaigns, initiatives and media offers in Rhineland-Palatinate.