Europeans are surprised, the world is amazed, and experts are seeking explanations. While in many European countries unemployment has risen to ten per cent and more, it has sunk in Germany.More ...
What role does multilingualism play in schools and other public institutions? And how is immigration and multilingualism policy shaped in Germany? These were the two featured questions asked at the international conference “50 Years Later: Immigration – Multilingualism – Education” in Dortmund in October.More ...
Since 2010 Aygül Özkan has been Minister in the state of Lower Saxony. An interview about the aims of Germany’s integration politics and how necessary immigration is for the country’s ageing society.More ...
Refugees, persecutees, undocumented immigrants, aliens without residence status – the constant risk of being deported forces them to go underground, work under exploitative conditions and live without access to medical care.More ...
For a long time, Neukölln was regarded as a prime example of an urban district with problems. Yet this Berlin district is becoming increasingly trendy among students and artists. Targeted political measures are one reason for the change of image.More ...
Germany’s population is shrinking. Many structures can only be maintained if a sufficient number of people use them. What can the Germans do to attract educated migrants of benefit to the economy?More ...
In many places climate change will foreseeably increase the pressure to migrate. Above all from the poor regions of the world there will in future be more and more “climate emigrants”.More ...
The establishment of Council of Experts on Integration and Immigration by eight major German foundations has evoked a consistently positive resonance in the German states and federal government.More ...
Three years after it was disbanded the Immigration Council is now enjoying an amazing renewal. The chances of its survival are also looking good, as this time the Council has taken the form of an political independent, academic brain trust working on a private basis.More ...
Together with the new citizenship law, the Immigration Act is meant to be one of the mainstays of German immigration policy. When the Act finally went into effect in 2005, not much was left of the original bill.More ...
Images of refugees have become a staple of TV news coverage in our day. Every year many thousands come to Germany and other countries in search of sanctuary from persecution and/or war.More ...
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