Immigrant Students and Foreign Students in Germany
In some urban part of Germany, the proportion of students with migration backgrounds is up to 90 percent. However, few of them will achieve college degree so that they are less confident compared with native German students. The project “Dialog macht Schule” founded by Gründern Hassan Asfour and Siamak Ahmadi aims to change such situation. […]
Reuters: Germany Becoming More Open to Immigrants
Student News Report by Yiran Wang: According to the news agency Reuters, Germans are becoming more inclusive toward immigrants. In past decades, Germany was known for its strict immigration laws and unfriendly attitudes towards immigrants. Due to unemployment in the 1970s oil crisis, the challenges of reunification and other issues, Germany was reluctant to accept more immigrants. As Germany’s […]
Digital Reading and the Post-Forensic Imagination / by Lutz Koepnick
Digital Reading and the Post-Forensic Imagination Lutz Koepnick New media theory and criticism remain deeply entangled in what Matthew Kirschenbaum has called the medial ideology: the assumption that the digital age knows neither of material forms of inscription nor of forensic traces left beyond the ephemeral, infinitely malleable, and endlessly fungible flickering of signs on […]
Featured Article — Welfare State Integration of Immigrants: The German Case
Student News Report by Judith Sijstermans: This month the Institute of European Studies at Berkeley is featuring an article on the integration of immigrants in Germany. The article is written by Friedrich Heckmann from the University of Bamberg. He addresses the question: Why does Germany have integration policies?
Bundesintegrationsministerium?
A group of more than 60 Academics released an online petition Tuesday calling on the new German government to reform integration politics by creating a separate government bureau to exclusively address migration and integration policy. The reformers state that the Bundesinnesministerium, which currently handles integration affairs, is often too overwhelmed with their primary goals of […]