Pathways of Migrant Incorporation in Germany
Nina Glick Schiller, Boris Nieswand, Günther Schlee, Tsypylma Darieva, Lale Yalcin-Heckmann, László Fosztó Download PDF Abstract: In this essay we examine five different pathways by which migrants with whom we have worked are incorporating themselves within Germany. Our approach to incorporation brings into the literature on migration the insight that social integration can take place […]
Thomas Meinecke’s German Fictions of Multicultural America: Model or Admonition?
Cecile Zorach Download PDF Abstract: The end of the Cold War accelerated changes in the demographics of Germany that had been taking place in spurts since its founding: the settlement of Aussiedler from the East increased with the demise of the USSR, conflicts in the Balkans and in developing nations released new waves of refugees, […]
Glub
Mieke Bal Download PDF Abstract: GLUB (Hearts) is a film about seeds – the eating of them, the shells, the shops and stalls, the people cracking the shells and spitting them out; you see it and you don’t, hidden as it is in ordinariness. It is a phenomenon that embodies the invisibility that comes with […]
November
Hito Steyerl Download PDF Abstract: November is the time after October, a time when revolution seems to be over and peripheral struggles have become particular, localist, and almost impossible to communicate. In November a new reactionary form of terror has taken over which abruptly breaks with the tradition of October. http://blip.tv/transitjournal/november-by-hito-steyerl-6197871 November Germany 2004. Director: Hito […]
Kleine Freiheit
Yüksel Yavuz Download PDF Abstract: A Little Bit of Freedom tells the story of a friendship between two young men, both of them illegal immigrants living in Altona, one of them a Kurd from Turkey. Baran’s application for asylum has been declined, and he has therefore fallen into an illegal status in Germany. He works […]