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Phillips, Donald George. "Germany and the future of post-national social coherence." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324448.
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Eheim, Johanna. "Integration of asylum seekers with traumatic experience in Germany." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22486.
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My study examines the legal structures, which determine the access to mental health care for traumatized asylum seekers. Additionally it analyses a volunteer run, non-governmental integration project in Germany. The two approaches are put into context and are analysed through different integration theories from psychology and social sciences. New German laws incorporate mental health care for asylum seekers but struggle to implement these. At this time, their focus lies on labor market integration and deportablitly of asylum seekers. Whereby, they ignore certain human rights. The integration project, Somenti as no political or economic aims but follows a need-oriented approach to integration and offers support to volunteers who work with asylum seekers. The methods applied in this study are a case study on the integration project and content text analysis on the government.
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Clark, Matthew Franklin. "The Challenges and Opportunities of Immigrant Integration: A Study of Turkish Immigrants in Germany." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/322.
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In an ever-globalizing world, societies comprised of myriad people and cultures are quickly becoming the norm rather than the exception. In societies made up of culturally diverse, religiously pluralistic and disparate people, an added layer of complexity becomes apparent when attempting to integrate multiple cultures into a single society. Germany, in its reconstruction effort following World War II, faced such an integration challenge when a massive influx of Turkish migrants arrived as part of a "foreign worker" agreement. The introduction of a large and culturally diverse immigrant population made cultural understanding of paramount importance. Culture is an intangible element that can be difficult to quantify in political, social, or economic terms. As such, understanding culture and the peaceful coexistence of multiple cultures requires an examination beyond traditional perspectives. The implementation of conflict resolution theories and viewing situations from a conflict resolution perspective enables the extra layer of complexity that can occur within culturally diverse societies to be unpacked and better understood. Specifically, the goal of this thesis was to examine the integration challenges for Turkish immigrants in Germany while at the same time looking for opportunities to learn from the challenges facing societies attempting to implement immigration and integration policies in order to promote the coexistence of multiple cultures. The thesis concludes by offering directives or recommendations, formulated from the findings in this study, for multicultural societies facing integration challenges.
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Mahmood, Sadaf [Verfasser]. "Human capital, occupational status, and social integration of Pakistani immigrants in Germany: Gender Perspectives / Sadaf Mahmood." Kassel : Kassel University Press, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1135305293/34.
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Virketyte, Agne, and Ida Wiklund. "The Creative Process for Digital Social Innovation in the Context of Migrant Integration." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-43947.
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Background: Existing literature has declared migrant integration as social stress putting communities under pressure. Dynamics of social innovations and digital technologies can provide solutions to the pressing matter of migrant integration, yet the academic literature is obscure about processes that organisations employ in this matter. Purpose: This study aims to investigate how the process of digital social innovation unfolds in organisations. The main purpose of this study seeks to answer the research question: How do organisations undertake the process of digital social innovations in relation to migrant integration? Method: To answer the research question, a qualitative research approach was chosen. Multiple case study was carried out, and the empirical data was gathered through semi-structured interviews. The content of the company websites and other additional material were used as a complementary source of information. The scope of participants was delimited to Sweden and Germany due to a high level of immigration in these countries. After data collection, the analysis was carried out in an abductive manner. Conclusion: The findings showed that the social innovation process is intertwined with the context where the actor acts as a mediator between the two. Two models were combined to gain both theoretical and practical insights without excluding one another. A suggested digital social innovation process model was then introduced in pursuit of providing a model that could be used in academia to annex scattered literature and to use the model in practice as a foundation for the innovation process.
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Matulovic, Lina. "How leaders perceive it: European integration in central political speeches in the UK and Germany." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21964.
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The European integration process has been a relevant topic since the creation of the European Communities. Member states of the European Union have often formed its projections on the development of the institutions, either favoring further integration or disagreeing with it. In this study, the establishment of the perception of European integration will be analyzed. This will be done through a critical discourse analysis on four speeches by four different conservative leaders of Germany and Britain. Speeches selected from German political leaders are by Helmut Kohl, a speech from 1991, and Angela Merkel, a speech held in 2012. The two British leaders’ speeches, which will be analyzed, are by Margaret Thatcher, a speech from 1988, and David Cameron, a speech held in 2013. After the analysis of each speech, a comparison will be made in order to consider a development in perception of the two countries. Two relevant European integration theories, supranationalism and intergovernmentalism will be applied, as well as the concept of Euroscepticism. These have helped to come up with the results: Germany has developed a clear supranational, pro- European stance towards the EU and British leaders the opposite, a clear Eurosceptic, intergovernmental perception. Both stances have developed increasingly towards both poles.
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Yang, Qiuyu. "Decomposition of wage gap between matched natives and refugees in Germany." Thesis, Jönköping University, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-54632.
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Prolonged and new regional violent conflicts have resulted in the displacement of residents in several countries. The thesis focuses on the people who arrived and applied for asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Aimed to analyse their labour market integration in Germany, the thesis uses micro-data from Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to decompose the wage gap between refugee workers and native workers in 2018. Coarsened exact matching (CEM) is used to match the characteristics of native workers with refugee workers. Five sets are generated at four different matching levels of covariates. It is found that total wage gap reaches the greatest value in the unmatched set. As the two groups' characteristics getting more and more similar, explained wage gap gradually shrinks until it becomes statistically insignificant. However, discriminatory wage gap exists in all sets and cannot be wiped out even if the characteristics get similar. CEM helps to reduce the heterogeneity between the two groups and provides a more balanced dataset and a non-overestimated labour market discrimination value.
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Scalvini, Marco. "Muslims must embrace our values : a critical analysis of the debate on Muslim integration in France, Germany, and the UK." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/774/.
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The continuing difficulty of integrating immigrants, especially Muslims, has led many European political leaders to question the merits of multiculturalism and to promote more commitment towards national values and social cohesion. This thesis aims to examine how these national discourses are interconnected and why they have an exclusionary character. Starting from this point, I draw on a theoretical approach based on a model of mediatised convergence in the European public sphere. Secondly, I reconstruct through a critical discourse analysis, the national debates that have emerged across Europe. I then identify commonalities, by looking into the strategies through which these discourses are articulated. Thirdly, I investigate through content analysis, how press coverage has amplified and reinforced this debate. The cross-national comparison demonstrates a shared concern for how multicultural policies have passively tolerated and encouraged Muslim immigrants to live in self-segregated and isolated communities. This nexus between securitisation and multiculturalism targets first and second generation of Muslims who are assumed, because of their religious and cultural identity, to have authoritarian customs and illiberal values. Conversely, embracing those secular and liberal values that characterise the European ethos is exemplified as the best practice to deal with a correct and safe integration. However, this strategy to reduce integration towards a process of assimilation to majority norms and values risks creating further exclusion, rather than enhancing social cohesion and political belonging. The analysis of national press coverage confirms a shared way of thinking and talking about integration. Despite the political specificity of each national debate, simultaneous coverage across Europe develops reciprocal discursive references on how to achieve community cohesion and manage the migration of Muslims. It can be claimed, therefore, that the more discourses converge across national public spheres, the more they are perceived as stable and consensual. Hence, convergence is a crucial factor to be considered because it allows us to define the boundaries of the European public sphere. However, the study of this transnational debate is crucial not only for scholars of media and communication, but also of European policies and immigration, as this debate involves a larger discussion on how to manage the complexity of relationships between immigrant minorities and the majority in Europe.
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Goldschmidt, Tina. "Immigration, Social Cohesion, and the Welfare State : Studies on Ethnic Diversity in Germany and Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-141582.
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Can social cohesion and solidarity persist in the face of large-scale migration? One particularly contentious hypothesis states that native majorities will be unwilling to support the provision of government-funded welfare to those whom they do not consider to be part of their own sociocultural ingroup, especially when sociocultural or ethnic otherness and socioeconomic disadvantage overlap. Consequently, majorities’ willingness to accept disadvantaged immigrant groups as legitimate and trusted members of the welfare community is central to the social cohesion of societies diversifying through migration. The dissertation consists of a comprehensive summary, followed by four original studies addressing the interplay between migration-induced diversity and social cohesion through the lens of majority attitudes and the micro and macro contexts within which they are embedded. The studies focus on Sweden and Germany, two European societies that host strong welfare states and large immigrant populations. Together, they seek to answer two central questions: First, does social distance between native-born citizens and immigrants lead the former to withdraw support from all redistributive policies, or are some types of welfare more affected than others? Second, how does the migration-induced diversification of societies come to matter for majority attitudes toward the welfare state and, as they are closely related, for majority attitudes toward the trustworthiness of others? Looking at the case of Germany, Study 1 shows that the conflict between diversity and welfare solidarity is not expressed in a general majority opposition to welfare, but rather in an opposition to government assistance benefiting immigrants – a phenomenon sometimes referred to as welfare chauvinism. Study 2 turns to the case of Sweden and investigates three pathways into welfare chauvinism: via the first-hand experience of immigrant unemployment and putative welfare receipt in the neighborhood context; via exposure to immigrant competition at the workplace; and via negative prejudice against immigrants. We find that the direct observation of immigrant unemployment in the neighborhood increases natives’ preference for spending on other Swedes over spending on immigrants, while competition with immigrants at the workplace does not. Using the same Swedish data, Study 3 hypothesizes that ethnically diverse workplaces imply trust-fostering inter-group contact. Yet, like in Study 2, we find a negative relationship between majority Swedes’ exposure to certain immigrant groups in the neighborhood and their trust in neighbors, while diverse workplaces neither seem to increase trust nor to affect the negative neighborhood-level association. Both Studies 2 and 3 show that negative attitudes toward immigrants increase welfare chauvinism and lower trust, even disregarding majority Swedes’ actual experience of immigrant presence or unemployment. Study 4 thus turns to a social force outside the realm of first-hand experience and explores German online news media debates on the welfare deservingness of various sociodemographic groups – among them, immigrants (as refugees in particular). However, rather than observing the persistent and particular stigmatization of immigrants as undeserving recipients or untrustworthy abusers of welfare, we find much more nuanced descriptions in our vast corpus of news stories.At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.
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Rusch, Ana M. "An Alternative Narrative of Integration In Germany through an Ethnographic Exploration of Cuban Immigration." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3918.
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This ethnographic study on Cuban immigrants conducted in Germany explored the dynamics of integration through an understudied immigrant population. Most of the research conducted on integration in Germany has overwhelmingly been on Turkish immigrants, which is Germany’s majority immigrant group. To contribute to Integration Studies, this research focused on a minority and lesser studied immigrant group, Cuban immigrants. Cuban immigrants in Germany not only have a different historical and geopolitical relationship with Germany than its majority group but they also subscribe to different cultural and ethnoreligious categories. Because of these varying circumstances, Cubans act as a counter example to the majority immigrant group, creating an alternative narrative to integration in Germany.
This dissertation addressed the methodology used in this study, explored the complexity of identity, examined German immigration and integration policies, reviewed the Cuban diaspora in the United States and globally, and presented an ethnography of Cuban integration in Germany. Effectively contributing to not only Integration Studies but also to Cuban Diaspora Studies, and Identity Studies.
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Gullupinar, Fuat. "Downward Integration." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613195/index.pdf.
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The study examines the recent transformations of integration policies and citizenship laws in Germany with a special focus on the experience of the children of Turkish immigrants in Goslar, a small town. By following
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Albu, Stefana Maria. "What is German? : migrating identities in Turkish-German literature : an analysis of cultural Influences on German national identity /." Norton, Mass. : Wheaton College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/15117.
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Tinney, Joseph Millar. "Integration and Muslim identities in settlement : a comparative study of Germany, The Netherlands and Switzerland." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2067.
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I adopt an interpretive methodology through which I investigate the becoming of Muslim identities in three national integration discourses. I analyse the meanings of integration in abstract, in context and through texts across contexts, and working within a broadly critical constructivist approach, I seek to show how integration discourses have an underlying security complex which explains how they come to be framed with Muslims in mind. To analyse integration I outline a new generic concept of settlement which I refer to as habilitation and which means enabling or endowing with ability or fitness. I then argue for an analytical separation of habilitative strategies, models and approaches, and thus remove integration from its generic descriptive status to one of strategy, model or approach. This I argue is justified in the discursive distinctions made in every-day language and meaning. I then investigate three broad habilitative models: multiculturalism, integration and assimilation. My primary data has been gathered in interviews with individuals acting as representatives of Muslim communities - Imams, organisation leaders, political activists and factory workers – corporate and societal actors such as Trade Unionists, Church representatives and state elites – policy advisers and integration officers. Muslim interviewees emphasised widespread use of distortion and mis-identification. I have defined such distortions as synecdoche. This is a two way process in which the individual is held responsible for the whole and in reverse direction, the whole being held responsible for individual action. The power of synecdoche to compress or expand Muslim identities is distortive and serves to reinforce the alterity of Muslims. In addition I identify another layer of othering which I call ulteriorisation. This involves placing identities under suspicion and is accomplished through a range of aspersive renderings – ambiguous loyalties, secularity, enclaving, underclass formation, and anti-integrationism. Ulteriorisation is understood to feed into broader securitisation of communities, society and polity. In conclusion I look at possible research directions and finish by emphasising that the integrity of Integration will be judged by the willingness of parties to negotiate and the quality of voluntarism and solidarity these processes produce.
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Fischer-Neumann, Marion [Verfasser], and Cornelia [Akademischer Betreuer] Kristen. "Social Identities of Immigrants – Bridges or Barriers for their Attitudinal Integration into Politics in Germany? / Marion Fischer-Neumann ; Betreuer: Cornelia Kristen." Bamberg : Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1127579770/34.
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Adedeji, Adekunle Moses [Verfasser], and Monika [Akademischer Betreuer] Bullinger. "Quality of life, subjective integration and social capital of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Germany / Adekunle Moses Adedeji ; Betreuer: Monika Bullinger." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1197801448/34.
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Adedeji, Adekunle Moses Verfasser], and Monika [Akademischer Betreuer] [Bullinger. "Quality of life, subjective integration and social capital of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Germany / Adekunle Moses Adedeji ; Betreuer: Monika Bullinger." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2019. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-100356.
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Glöckner, Olaf. "Immigrated Russian Jewish elites in Israel and Germany after 1990 : their integration, self image and role in community building." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2010. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5036/.
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Russian Jews who left the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and its Successor States after 1989 are considered as one of the best qualified migrants group worldwide. In the preferred countries of destination (Israel, the United States and Germany) they are well-known for cultural self-assertion, strong social upward mobility and manifold forms of self organisation and empowerment. Using Suzanne Kellers sociological model of “Strategic Elites”, it easily becomes clear that a huge share of the Russian Jewish Immigrants in Germany and Israel are part of various elites due to their qualification and high positions in the FSU – first of all professional, cultural and intellectual elites (“Intelligentsija”). The study aimed to find out to what extent developments of cultural self-assertion, of local and transnational networking and of ethno-cultural empowerment are supported or even initiated by the immigrated (Russian Jewish) Elites. The empirical basis for this study have been 35 half-structured expert interviews with Russian Jews in both countries (Israel, Germany) – most of them scholars, artists, writers, journalists/publicists, teachers, engineers, social workers, students and politicians.
The qualitative analysis of the interview material in Israel and Germany revealed that there are a lot of commonalities but also significant differences. It was obvious that almost all of the interview partners remained to be linked with Russian speaking networks and communities, irrespective of their success (or failure) in integration into the host societies. Many of them showed self-confidence with regard to the groups’ amazing professional resources (70% of the adults with academic degree), and the cultural, professional and political potential of the FSU immigrants was usually considered as equal to those of the host population(s). Thus, the immigrants’ interest in direct societal participation and social acceptance was accordingly high. Assimilation was no option.
For the Russian Jewish “sense of community” in Israel and Germany, Russian Language, Arts and general Russian culture have remained of key importance. The Immigrants do not feel an insuperable contradiction when feeling “Russian” in cultural terms, “Jewish” in ethnical terms and “Israeli” / “German” in national terms – in that a typical case of additive identity shaping what is also significant for the Elites of these Immigrants. Tendencies of ethno-cultural self organisation – which do not necessarily hinder impressing individual careers in the new surroundings – are more noticeable in Israel. Thus, a part of the Russian Jewish Elites has responded to social exclusion, discrimination or blocking by local population (and by local elites) with intense efforts to build (Russian Jewish) Associations, Media, Educational Institutions and even Political Parties. All in all, the results of this study do very much contradict popular stereotypes of the Russian Jewish Immigrant as a pragmatic, passive “Homo Sovieticus”. Among the Interview Partners in this study, civil-societal commitment was not the exception but rather the rule.
Traditional activities of the early, legendary Russian „Intelligentsija“ were marked by smooth transitions from arts, education and societal/political commitment. There seem to be certain continuities of this self-demand in some of the Russian Jewish groups in Israel. Though, nothing comparable could be drawn from the Interviews with the Immigrants in Germany. Thus, the myth and self-demand of Russian “Intelligentsija” is irrelevant for collective discourses among Russian Jews in Germany.Russischsprachige Juden, die nach 1989 die Sowjetunion und ihre Nachfolgestaaten verlassen haben, zählen weltweit zu den bestqualifizierten Migranten. In ihren bevorzugten Zielländern (Israel, USA, Deutschland) zeichnen sie sich durch sichtbare Formen der kulturellen Selbstbehauptung, eine starke Aufstiegsmobilität und einen relativ hohen Grad der Selbstorganisation aus. Auf Grund des hohen Bildungsgrades und der dominierenden Berufsbilder konnte in Anlehnung an das Modell der „Strategic Elites“ von Suzanne Keller ein generell hoher Anteil an Eliten in der untersuchten Gruppe von Immigranten in Deutschland und Israel ausgemacht werden – v.a. professionelle, kulturelle und intellektuelle Eliten. Die Studie fragte danach, inwiefern Prozesse der kulturellen Selbstbehauptung, der lokalen und transnationalen Vernetzung und der ethno-kulturellen Selbstorganisation von den zugewanderten Eliten unterstützt oder sogar selbst befördert werden. Als empirische Grundlage dienten je 35 Experten-Interviews mit russisch-jüdischen Immigranten in beiden Ländern – dabei vorwiegend Wissenschaftler, Künstler, Schriftsteller, Publizisten/Journalisten, Lehrer, Ingenieure, Sozialarbeiter, Studenten und Politiker. Die qualitative Auswertung des Interviewmaterials in Deutschland und Israel ergab zahlreiche Gemeinsamkeiten, aber auch markante Unterschiede. Auffällig war, dass fast alle Interviewpartner mit russischsprachigen Netzwerken und Community-Strukturen gut verbunden blieben – unabhängig vom bisherigen Erfolg ihrer individuellen Integration. Fast durchweg waren sie sich ihrer überdurchschnittlichen beruflichen Kompetenzen (70% Akademiker) bewusst, die kulturellen, beruflichen und häufig auch politischen Ressourcen wurden mindestens als ebenbürtig zu jenen der Aufnahmegesellschaften betrachtet. Das Interesse an direkter gesellschaftlicher Partizipation und Akzeptanz war entsprechend hoch. Für das Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl der Immigranten in Israel und Deutschland bilden russische Sprache, Kunst und (Alltags-) Kultur nach wie vor eine Schlüssel-Rolle. Dabei entsteht für die meisten Immigranten kein zwingender Widerspruch, sich "russisch" im kulturellen, "jüdisch" im ethnischen und "israelisch" / "deutsch" im nationalen Sinne zu fühlen - insofern ein klassischer Fall von additiver Identitätsbildung, der auch die zugewanderten Eliten charakterisiert. Assimilation in die Mehrheitsgesellschaft ist keine Option. Tendenzen ethno-kultureller Selbstorganisation, die erfolgreiche individuelle Integrationsverläufe im neuen Umfeld keineswegs ausschließen, zeigten sich am intensivsten in Israel. So reagiert ein Teil der russisch-jüdischen Eliten auf allgemeine Ausgrenzungserfahrungen und/oder Schließungsprozesse der lokalen Eliten bewusst mit der Bildung eigener Vereine, Medien, Bildungseinrichtungen und sogar politischer Parteien. Insgesamt widersprechen die Ergebnisse der Studie dem weitverbreiteten Stereotyp vom russisch-jüdischen Migranten als eines pragmatisch-passiven „Homo Sovieticus“. Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement war bei den untersuchten Eliten eher der Regelfall. Zu den Traditionen der frühen, legendären russischen „Intelligentsija“ gehörten fließende Übergänge zwischen Kunst, Bildung und gesellschaftspolitischem Engagement. Dies setzt sich in Israel in einigen Gruppierungen der russisch-jüdischen Immigranten nahtlos fort. Dagegen machten die Experten-Interviews in Deutschland deutlich, dass ein vergleichbarer „Intelligentsija“-Effekt hier nicht zu erwarten ist - und daher für kollektive Orientierungsprozesse der russischen Juden irrelevant bleibt.
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Böttcher, Judith Lena. "Vowed to community or ordained to mission? : aspects of separation and integration in the Lutheran Deaconess Institute, Neuendettelsau, Bavaria." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:75ce64eb-5a38-4d36-84d7-c48071df089c.
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This study offers an overdue exploration of the early years of the deaconess community in Neuendettelsau from a gender perspective. Drawing on rich archival material, it focuses on the process of the formation of a distinctive collective identity. Central to this study is the assumption, drawn from the social sciences, that collective identity is a social construction which requires the participation of the whole group through identification and which is consolidated by developing specific rituals, symbols, codes and normative texts, which facilitate integration, and by constructing external boundaries, which separate from the world and wider church. The centrifugal forces which came into play when deaconesses were sent out in isolation were counterbalanced by a communal life which offered forms of participation and identification for the individual members and which consolidated their sense of belonging. The first chapter introduces the methodology. Chapter Two explores the social, cultural and theological context of the foundation of the Deaconess Institute, and offers a brief outline of the institution's historical development. The third chapter offers an in-depth analysis of the initiation ceremony as a rite which both admitted into the community and conferred an ecclesiastical office. Chapter Four analyses formative and normative texts that shed light on the community's norms, values, and expectations. In the fifth chapter, non-literary means of consolidating and affirming the deaconesses' collective identity are explored. This study concludes that the process of the emergence of a specific deaconess culture was pervaded by bourgeois norms, values, patterns of behaviour and notions about gender roles which measured out the women's radius of action and were at times difficult to reconcile with the deaconess profession.
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Soysal, Can. "Dissonant Voices." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23919.
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On the 50th anniversary of the labour recruitment agreement between Germany andTurkey, Turkish migrants in Germany continue to occupy a central position as theobjects of the on-going public discussions on immigration and integration. Thisstudy explores, with a transnational perspective, how the discourses on migrantintegration are formulated in the transnational Turkish language media in Germany,as well as, if and how those discourses differ from, comply with or resist thedominant integrationist discourse in Germany. To reach this aim, discourse analysison empirical material consisting of 97 articles from the European editions ofnewspapers Zaman and Hürriyet, has been conducted within the theoreticalperspective informed by the ideas of Michel Foucault. The study concludes thatthere are conflicting and overlapping discourses on integration manifested in theTurkish language media in Germany, which are in varying degrees resisting to andin conformity with the dominant integrationist discourse in Germany. The resistanceand compliance occurs in a complex and transnational way, in the reflection of thepolitical and ideological fault lines in Turkey.
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Alaaddinoglu, Yeliz. "The Challange Of Becoming A Multicultural Society: The Case Of Germany." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12606867/index.pdf.
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This thesis seeks to trace the process of Germany&rsquobecoming a multicultural society through the politico-historical analysis of the matter of immigration to Germany. The working assumption while projecting this study is as follows
there is a close relation between the policies and implementations of Germany in practice and becoming a multicultural society during the process in question. Germany became a multinational society with its composition of different ethnic, religious and cultural groups
but it is clearly seen that Germany is not moving toward becoming a multicultural society, at least in the near future, considering its policies and implementations in practice. At the same time, considering the main arguments and effects of these new immigration and citizenship laws concerning immigrants will provide an essential ground for recognizing whether Germany is a multicultural society or not.
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Gestring, Norbert Janßen Andrea Polat Ayça. "Prozesse der Integration und Ausgrenzung : türkische Migranten der zweiten Generation /." Wiesbaden : VS, Verl. für Sozialwissenschaften, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014907541&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Pohl, Imke Johanna. "Deutsche Einheit and Europäische Einigung: A Post-Structuralist Account of German National Identity Construction through Foreign Policy." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21012.
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This thesis examines national identity in the context of the empirical case of German foreign policy. In this way, the relationship between identity and foreign policy is analyzed. The thesis does not focus on a specific scenario but rather aims at illustrating the development of the relationship by comparing the time periods of 1990-1994 and 2017-2019. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to answer the presiding question of how we can understand the relationship between German foreign policy-making and the formation of national identity seen within the context of its evolution since 1990. Subsequently, this thesis will take on the discursive approach of post-structuralism as well as its non-fixed conceptualization of identity. Furthermore, it will put forward the argument that identity is relational and discursive by demonstrating its constitutive and discursively constructed relationship to foreign policy. As a result, this paper presents the underlying structures of German foreign policy discourse that do not only indicate shifts but also construct German national identity. At the same time, the identity perception influences the country’s discourse on foreign policy by legitimizing specific objectives as well as general directions. While the discourse shows shifts in cases such as Othering, new framings of leadership and the ideas towards Europe, a certain continuity in regard to the German conceptualization of identity can be observed.
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Kruse, Hanno [Verfasser], and Frank [Akademischer Betreuer] Kalter. "Close Neighbors, Separate Lives. An Investigation of Residential Barriers and Bridges to the Social Integration of Young Immigrants in Germany / Hanno Kruse ; Betreuer: Frank Kalter." Mannheim : Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1138195790/34.
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Hassan, Walla Shehata Sayed [Verfasser]. "The challenges of integration for Muslim adolescents in Germany from the perspective of social work: participation in culture and sports activities / Walla Shehata Sayed Hassan." Kassel : Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1241686572/34.
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Couronne, Céline. "What can Art Teach us about Integration? : The role of art in postmigrant integration: cases from Germany, Sweden and Luxembourg." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-170776.
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The term integration became a buzzword and is omnipresent in the current European discourses. Despite its broad definitions, there is a tendency in migration studies and the political narrative to focus exclusively on migrants and their descendants while upholding the vision of a fixed “host society”, with an established national culture, in which migrants should integrate. The present study aims to reframe the concept of integration by adopting a postmigrant approach and by analyzing the contribution of art projects in this regard. To do so, the study draws on two current theoretical approaches to integration in the social sciences, Stuart Hall’s conceptualization of national culture, the postmigration concept and the societal impact of art as theoretical framework. First, the notion of integration has been positioned theoretically in current postmigrant debates. The content analysis demonstrates that the conceptualization of postmigrant integration takes distance from the notion of assimilation and looks beyond the topic of migration. Second, eight semi-structured interviews have been conducted with project team members and project participants of the art projects “Newcomers”, “Leben, Erzählen, Schreiben”, “Hela Bilden”, and the organization “Alter & Ego”. The thematic analysis of the interviews showed the necessity to address the “host population”, i.e. individuals without experience of forced migration, to overcome monolingualism and to concentrate on societal diversity which contributes to the theorization of postmigrant integration. The present thesis indicates the importance of the arts regarding their societal impact and agency to provide alternative narratives on migration and integration. It also stresses the necessity of integration policies and the European migration regime to take part in the reframing of current migration discourses by directly addressing the “host population” and acknowledging today’s context of plural societies in which everyone should integrate.This thesis has been written as part of the EuMIGS double degree programme in the field of Migration Studies.
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Eskitürk, Cennet, Mandy Gädeke, and André Willing. "The effect of supply chain integration on the environmental and social performance : Based on German electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-44129.
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In the past years supply chain integration has become focus of interest, due to the discussion in the literature, that a positive direct relationship exists between higher supply chain integration and higher performance. Additionally, the environmental and social performance of supply chains gained much interest based on the new sustainability focus in the 21st century. The production of electrical and electronic equipment is one of the fastest growing global manufacturing activities. However, due to technological advancements, the quick obsolescence of electronics result in increased generation of waste of electrical and electronic equipment. Germany is one of the leading electrical and electronic equipment markets within Europe and is strongly affected by the EU directives and regulations, which aim not only to protect human health but also to improve the environmental performance of the electrical and electronic equipment operators in particular. Therefore, the environmental and social performance of German electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers is increasingly gaining importance. Respectively, the purpose of this study is to investigate what effect the depth of upstream supply chain integration has on the environmental and social performance of German electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers. This study is based on the quantitative research method. The required empirical data is generated through an online questionnaire, which has been sent to German electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers. An initial operationalization of upstream supply chain integration depth and environmental and social performance is used as a foundation for the questionnaire. It can be concluded that German electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers seem to have a coordinative upstream supply chain integration and presumably have a Abstract 4 moderate environmental and social performance. Furthermore, it can be assumed that the upstream supply chain integration depth has an effect on the environmental and social performance of German electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers.
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Barrière, Anne-Lise. "Concilier identité de gauche et intégration économique européenne : étude comparée du PS et du SPD face au défi du marché commun entre la conférence de la Haye (1969) et l'Acte unique (1986)." Thesis, Lille 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LIL30031/document.
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La construction européenne fut entre la conférence de La Haye en 1969 et la signature de l’Acte unique européen en 1986, une entreprise d’intégration des sociétés européennes principalement économique, notamment fondée sur la libre circulation des marchandises, des hommes mais aussi des services et des capitaux. Ce projet de marché unique transnational fut un défi inouï lancé aux Etats et aux partis politiques qui organisent l’expression politique au sein de chaque nation. Deux partis, profondément enracinés par leur identité socialiste et démocratique dans la vie de leur nation et également mus par l’idéal européen, le parti social-démocrate d’Allemagne (SPD) et le Parti socialiste français (PS), furent, par l’action de leurs dirigeants au pouvoir, étroitement associés à la réalisation du projet européen.Ces partis furent-ils des acteurs qui imprimèrent la marque du socialisme démocratique à la construction européenne ou l’accompagnèrent-ils sans en corriger les traits originaux ? Ont-ils façonné le modèle économique de l’intégration européenne ou s’est-il imposé à eux ? Partant, cette expérience européenne les conduisit-elle à préserver ou à modifier leur identité ? Notre recherche nous conduit ainsi à étudier la rencontre entre deux utopies, l’utopie européenne et l’utopie du socialisme démocratique et à mesurer l’extrême difficulté pour ces deux partis de créer un modèle qui fasse converger ces deux caractéristiques du PS et du SPD et leur permette de rester des forces politiques d’avenir, riches de propositions partagées à l’échelle européenneBetween the conference of The Hague (1965) and the signing of the Single European Act (1986), the European Construction was foremost an economic endeavour aiming at integrating the European societies and based on the free movement of goods, people, services and money. The creation of the common market was an extraordinary challenge for the nation states and for the political parties which are responsible for the expression of the political life of their nation. Two parties, the French socialist party (PS) and the social-democratic party of Germany (SPD), both deeply rooted in the political life of their own nation, with a socialist and democratic identity, but also moved by European ideals, were greatly involved in the realisation of the European project, mainly through the action of their leaders when these were exercising their national responsibilities and ruling their nation.Thus the questioning: did these parties leave the mark of democratic socialism on the European construction or did they only accompany it without correcting the original features? Did they participate in the definition of the European economic model or not? And in turn, did the European construction lead them to preserve or to modify their identity?Our inquiry leads us to study how two utopian ideas, the path towards democratic socialism and the path towards European unity, interfere. The extreme difficulty for both parties to create a convergence between these two paths could prevent them from remaining political strengths with great future at national and European scale
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Malinowski, Igor. "Chechens in Germany : the conflict between integration and assimilation." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10437/12077.
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Orientação: Maria Claudia Álvares;Islamists, terrorists, bandits. Chechens worldwide are associated with their very negative reputation. But very little is known about this small ethnic group whose culture has a long ancient history. As long as their cultural heritage goes back, their war-torn history is also an elementary part of their identity. Since round about 400 years there have been various armed conflicts and wars between Russia and Chechnya. After the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991 Chechnya declared itself as the independent state “Chechen Republic Of Ichkeria”. This resulted in two Chechen wars, the first one endured from 1994-1996 with the Chechens defeating the Russian troops. The second Chechen war took place between 1999 and 2009 and was declared as an anti-terror campaign. Afterwards a pro-Russian government has been established with Ramzan Kadyrov1 who is frequently accused by NGOs, journalists and human rights activists of massive human right abuses, arbitrariness, corruption and an exaggerated personal cult. Reasons for more than 300.000 refugees living in Europe coming along the last 25 years. Diverse studies have been developed to understand the political situation between Chechnya and Russia, but barely any studies deal with the new living conditions in the countries of their new residence, nor how their integration works in combination with their Adats (characteristic way of living/honor code). Through this research I am giving an overview of Chechen behavior rules called Adat, what difficulties they face between integrating in order to start a new life and maintaining their own identity, which has been exposed to repression, war and the fight for surviving for the last four centuries. But also how the actual “Being Chechen Like” identity changes along the process of integration far away from their homeland.
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Bug, Mathias. "Is New Zealand' s Migration System a Feasible Option for Germany?" Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0006-B235-2.
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YELUTAS, Nihan. "Dynamics of identity transformation : three generations of Turkish immigrants in Berlin." Doctoral thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/6570.
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Defence date: 1 December 2006Examining board: Prof. Bo Strath (Supervisor) ; Prof. Wilfried Spohn ; Prof. Peter Wagner ; Prof. Ayhan Kaya
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Kojnok, Márta. "Soziale Integration und diskursive Sprachverwendung." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-001F-6B00-D.
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Lieb, Christian. "Moving west: German-speaking immigration to British Columbia, 1945-1961." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/904.
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Germans are among the largest ethnic groups, both in Canada as a whole and in British Columbia. Nevertheless, neither nationally, nor provincially, has this group received much academic attention, especially for the years between the end of the Second World War and the building of the Berlin Wall when about 200,000 German-speaking persons arrived in Canada. Based on the life stories of fifty German immigrants interviewed in British Columbia, published biographies, and archival records from Germany and Canada, this study reconstructs the conditions in interwar and postwar Europe that led to the mass-emigration of Germans in the late 1940s and the 1950s. It argues that this migration movement was not only influenced by government policies and the support of humanitarian organizations, but also by the existence of earlier settlement facilitating chain migrations to Canada. From the port of entry, the dissertation follows the immigrants’ adaptation and integration into Canadian society. Though the vast majority of them did not speak any English, or know much about their adopted country, except that it must be better than what they left in war-torn Europe, Germans are generally ranked among the best integrated ethnic groups in Canada.
Yet, despite this assessment, the picture emerging from the sources strongly questions the existence of a singular German immigrant identity in Canada. The distinct self-perceptions of German nationals and ethnic Germans based on their experiences in Europe during the Second World War created striking differences in their patterns of immigration and adaptation to life in Canada which are still discernible after over half a century of settlement in North America.
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Marquardt, Felix Maximilian. "Wie kann eine christliche Gemeinde interkulturell werden?: eine praktisch-theologische Untersuchung von drei evangelischen Freikirchen in Deutschland." Diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25926.
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Christliche Gemeinden in Deutschland finden sich zunehmend in einer interkulturell zusammengesetzten Gesellschaft wieder und viele fragen danach, wie eine Integration von Migranten in ihre bestehenden Gemeinden gelingen kann. In dieser qualitativ-empirischen Studie wurden drei evangelische Freikirchen in Deutschland dahingehend untersucht, wie sie sich von einer ehemals monokulturell-deutschen Gemeinde in eine interkulturelle Gemeinde entwickelt haben. Dabei wurden in besonderer Weise die Voraussetzungen für die Entwicklung, der Veränderungsprozess und besondere Merkmale der Gemeinden untersucht. Als Grundlage für die Forschung wurde ein aus verschiedenen Disziplinen zusammengeführtes Modell aus Erkenntnissen zu interkulturellem Gemeindebau entworfen. In der Studie wird deutlich, dass interkultureller Gemeindebau sowohl bereichernd als auch herausfordernd und konfliktgeladen erlebt wird. Besonders wichtig sind dabei eine strategisch kompetente Leitung, eine missionarische Grundausrichtung, ein liebevoller und wertschätzender Umgang miteinander, die Einigung auf gemeinsame Leitlinien, das Feiern von Erfolgen, Beziehungsaufbau, das Einladen zur Mitarbeit auf Augenhöhe, interkulturelle Leitungsteams, die Übersetzungsarbeit, Geduld und Flexibilität sowie die Bereitschaft, voneinander zu lernen.
German society is becoming increasingly intercultural, and many Christian churches are asking how migrants can be successfully integrated into established churches. In this qualitative-empirical study, three free evangelical churches in Germany were examined to determine how they developed from a previously monocultural German church into an intercultural church. In the course of the study, the prerequisites for development, the change process and special features of the churches were specifically examined. An integrated model designed on the basis of insights of various disciplines regarding the intercultural construction of churches served as the foundation for the research. It became clear in this study that building an intercultural church not only enriches the church, but is also experienced as challenging since it has the potential to give rise to conflict. The following elements are especially important: strategic and competent leadership, a basic missionary orientation, a loving and esteeming manner in associating with one another, consensus on common guidelines, a celebration of successes, building of relationships, an invitation for others to minister on equal terms, intercultural leadership teams, translation work, patience and flexibility, and a willingness to learn from one another.
Die Duitse samelewing raak toenemend interkultureel, en talle Christengemeentes wonder hoe migrante in gevestigde gemeentes opgeneem kan word. Wyses waarop drie Evangeliese gemeentes in Duitsland ontwikkel het van eens monokulturele Duitse gemeentes in interkulturele gemeentes, is in hierdie kwalitatief empiriese studie ondersoek. In die besonder die voorvereistes vir verandering, die veranderingsproses en die unieke kenmerke van die gemeentes is in hierdie studie verken. ʼn Geïntegreerde model wat berus op die insigte van verskeie dissiplines wat hulle op die interkulturele samestelling van kerke toespits, het die basis van die navorsing gevorm. Dit blyk uit hierdie studie dat die totstandkoming van ʼn interkulturele gemeente nie slegs verrykend kan wees nie, maar dat dit moontlik ook tot onenigheid aanleiding kan gee. Die volgende is van besondere belang: strategiese en bevoegde leiers, ʼn sendingoriëntasie, liefdevolle en respekvolle omgang met mekaar, eenstemmigheid oor algemene riglyne, ʼn viering van suksesse, die bou van goeie verhoudinge, ʼn versoek dat ander op gelyke voet dien, interkulturele leierskapspanne, vertaalwerk, geduld en toegeeflikheid, en die gewilligheid om by mekaar te leer.
Tshitshavha tsha German tshi khou ṋaṋa u vha na mvelelo dzo ṱanganelanaho, nahone kereke nnzhi dza Tshikhiresite dzi khou vhudzisa uri ṱhunḓu dzi nga ṱanganyiswa hani zwavhuḓi kha kereke dzi re hone. Kha ngudo iyi ya khwaṱhisedzwaho nga tshenzhelo na ndeme, kereke tharu dza evangeli yo vhofholowaho dza ngei Germany dzo lingwa u vhona uri dzo bvelela hani u bva kha u vha dza tshikale dza Germany dza mvelele nthihi u ya kha kereke ya mvelele yo ṱanganelanaho. Kha khoso iyi ya ngudo, ṱhoḓea ya u bvelela, maitele a tshanduko na zwiṱaluli zwo khetheaho zwa kerekezwo lingululwa. Tshiedziswa tsho ṱanganelanaho tsho itwaho ho sedzwa luvhonela lwa masia o fhambanaho mayelana na u fhaṱa kerekedzo ṱanganelanaho tsho shuma sa mutheo wa ṱhoḓisiso. Zwo bvela khagala kha ngudo iyi uri u fhaṱa kereke yo ṱanganelanaho a zwi pfumisi fhedzi kereke, zwi dovha zwa vha tshenzhelo ire na khaedu saizwi i na khonadzeo ya u vusa dzikhakhathi. Zwipiḓa zwi tevhelaho ndi zwa ndeme vhukuma: vhurangaphanḓa vhu re na tshiṱirathedzhi nahone ho ṱalifhaho, u pfumbudzwa ha mutheo kha zwa vhufunzi, nḓila ua lufuno na ndeme kha matshilisano, u tendelana kha nyendedzo dzi fanaho, u pembelela mvelaphanḓa, u fhaṱa vhushaka, thamba ya vhaṅwe kha u funza nga milayo i linganaho, thimu dza vhurangaphanḓa ha mvelele yo ṱanganelanaho, mushumo wa vhupinduleli, u konḓelela na u tenda u shanduka, na u ḓiimisela u guda kha vhaṅwe.
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Shiu, Dai-Ling, and 許玳綾. "A Study on the Legislative Directions of Taiwan Refugee Act by Analyzing German Integration Act: A Focus on the Concept of Social Integration." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3zdmc5.
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Taiwan's current legal system using for dealing with the problem of asylum seekers has the Act Governing Relations between People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area, the Act Governing Regulations with Hong Kong and Macau and Immigration Act. However, due to Taiwan's special historical background and complicated political factors, the application for asylum cases of China, Hong Kong, the R.O.C isolated Fighting Chinese army and exiled Tibetans is mostly handled on a case-by-case basis. Owing to the Draft Refugee Act did not pass third reading, so that the administrative agencies cannot deal with cases of asylum seekers according to the law. Furthermore, although the Draft Refugee Act has a general structure, there is still no provision in the asylum procedure to protect the applicant’s remedy rights, and there is no provision of the rights and obligations of refugees after they exiled Tibetans are recognized. In 2016, the number of refugees reached the highest peak and Germany keep open mind for accepting asylum seekers and refugees among member country of European Union. For dealing the problem of refugees and integrating German society so the Integration Act passed in 2016. Due to complete legal structure of Integration Act, so my research takes the German Integration Act as the main axis. My research uses the method of comparative analysis and collect past historical data and information, then analyze a particular event, and to find a general rule from this particular event.Therefore, the information is mostly collected from the official website of the Federal office for Migration and Refugees, then analyze the main contents of the asylum procedure and the relevant provisions of the social integration of the Integration Act. Therefore, through the analysis of the main contents and the concept of social integration of the Integration Act , my research raised some suggestions for the asylum procedure and the social integration stage of Taiwan’s draft Refugee Act. Therefore,my research raised suggestions for the legislative directions of the asylum procedure.Firstly，the asylum-related acts can mutatis mutandis the provisions of the draft Refugee Act. Secondly，the legislator should constitute the provisions of remedy rights for asylum seekers and refugees.Thirdly, the government should give the translation service and legal aid service for asylum seekers and refugees. There are also some suggestions for the social integration strategy, firstly, to legislate the provisions of the social integration. Secondly, the rights and obligations of refugees should be legislated in the Draft Refugee Act. Lastly, the government should integrate the resources of the administrative agencies and non-governmental organization.
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Beattie, Laura Jean. "The ethnic church and immigrant integration: social services, cultural preservation and the re-definition of cultural identity." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8003.
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Consideration of the significance of religious institutions in the experience of immigrant
settlement is, at best, marginalized in immigration and church history literature. The limited
amount of research that has been carried out is limited in time frame and/or by its lack of
consideration of the wider social service functions of the church. It is rarely recognized that for
new immigrants, churches can function as critical access routes to the host society or as
protective cultural communities. Churches provide stability in unfamiliar territory through the
creation of a sense of community, a sense of place and an extended family of support. This
research seeks to understand how the church has served the German ethnic and immigrant
community; how the church has aided cultural preservation as well as immigrant integration; and
finally, how some churches have re-defined themselves in the face of member 'assimilation,'
generational changes and neighbourhood transition. For some churches, their mission has been
extended beyond their original German ethnic community to local neighbourhood residents,
predominantly of Asian origin. Unstructured interviews with over twenty-five church leaders
from ten German ethnic churches in Vancouver suggest that for many immigrants, the church
provided stability and acted as a centre of social networks through which, for example,
employment and housing were found. However, the position of the church in maintaining
culture is significantly more complex; often dependent upon various factors including church age
and the histories of immigrant congregations. This research demonstrates that churches have
significant but generally unrecognized impacts on the immigrant settlement experience and that
ethnic churches can, but do not necessarily, play supportive roles in maintaining culture.
Churches that have recognized the social changes impacting their congregations have found new
models of mission to integrate new immigrant communities.
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Rauhut, Stephan D. "Neues Leben in alten Kirchen : missionale Integration von gemeinschaftlichem Leben, gesellschaftsrelevanten Gemeindebau und Immobilienmanagement." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/11985.
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German textAusgehend von dem konkreten mehrdimensionalen missionalen Kirchenprojekt REFOmoabit ist es Ziel dieser Masterarbeit, eine Antwort auf die Frage zu geben, wie eine fruchtbare Integration von (1) gemeinschaftlichem Leben, (2) gesellschaftsrelevantem Gemeindebau und (3) Immobilienmanagement gelingen kann. Die aktuelle ekklesiologische Praxis und Erfahrung zeigt jedoch, dass es zu Spannungen zwischen dem Prinzip des gaben- und konsensbasierten Miteinanders, einerseits und der Entwicklung eines gesellschaftsrelevanten Gemeindebaus und einem die ersten beiden Bereiche unterstützenden Immobilienmanagements andererseits kommt. Infolgedessen soll im Rahmen dieser Arbeit die Frage nach der genauen Art und Ausprägung dieser Spannungen, ihren Ursachen und möglichen Lösungen, die eine wirklich fruchtbare Integration dieser drei Bereiche ermöglichen, untersucht und beantwortet werden. Dies erfolgt mit einem interdisziplinären Dreischritt, indem (a) soziologisch Art, Ausprägung und Ursache der vorfindlichen Spannungen analysiert werden, diese (b) theologisch reflektiert werden und abschließend (c) praktisch-theologische Handlungsmöglichkeiten als ekklesiologische Hilfestellungen für eine fruchtbare Integration entwickelt werden.
Based on the multidimensional church planting project REFOmoabit this dissertation aims to answer the question how a fruitful integration of (1) communal life, (2) societal relevant congregational development and (3) property estate management is possible. Current ecclesiological practice and experience has shown that tensions arise between the principle of gift- and consensus-based cooperation and transformative church planting as well as the real estate management that is supposed to support the other two areas. Therefore this dissertation aims to examine and answer questions about the exact nature and extent of these tensions, their causes and possible solutions that make a truly fruitful integration of these three areas possible. This takes place within an interdisciplinary approach by (a) analyzing the nature, extent and reason of the tensions sociologically, (b) examining them from a theological viewpoint and (c) offering practical theological courses of action as an ecclesiological aid for a fruitful integration.
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Weber, Angelika. "Erziehung zur Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit. Eine kritische Untersuchung pädagogischer Konzepte." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28702.
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This study investigates different ways of efficiently educating learners to become bi- or multilingual. In the introduction relevant background information concerning the definition of bilingualism is given and related issues are being discussed, such as language learning, language awareness, bilingual instruction and bilingual education models. Human beings are characterised by language, but also by social and cultural tradition. In the context of globalisation pluralism and multiculturalism are common factors affecting even previously isolated communities. Bi- and multilingualism are some of the strategies of adaptation to this reality. It can be assumed, that this development will continue rapidly as the inhabitants of the global village grow in and adapt to this realisation. In countries with a history and tradition of multilingual and bilingual education like South Africa, Canada, Luxembourg and Belgium and also in countries where immigration results in issues of multilingual and bilingual challenging society like in the USA one finds a great variety of answers to these problems posed. The situation in Germany is different, because bilingualism became an issue only fairly recently due to the actual demands brought by the European union. In South Africa the social context determines largely that people are inclined to bi- and multilingualism and the educational system tries to promote this predisposition by means of bi- or multilingual models in schools, so that the learners become efficient facing the bi- and multilingual challenges of their diverse and pluralistic society. In the USA on the other hand the need arises to provide for minority groups, so that they can retain their mother tongue (e.g. Spanish) while becoming fluent in the predominant language (i.e. American). Lastly the new development of the European Union has led Germany to actively promote bi- und multilingual education to aid the integration of Germans in the Union. The various models developed in these countries are studied in the wide variety of their different social and historical contexts. The main part of the study comprises a systematic overview of the various bilingual education models that are being implemented in different countries. These countries include the USA, Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and lastly and more detailed, South Africa. A number of different circumstances surrounding bi- or multilingualism in the various countries have given rise to a large variety of models attempting to address the challenges posed by the various issues. A number of different goals have been addressed and the results have been just as varied. This leads to a concluding comparison of the western and European models with those of the South African models. Much research has been done on bi- and multilingualism and specifically bilingual education, as humans since earliest times were concerned with this subject. For my study I have relied mainly on more recent sources (1990 to the present) from the USA, Canada and Germany. However as the academic study of this issue has been going on for quite a time in some countries like South Africa, I have also referred to older books and journals (1945<). Due to the overwhelming information about this subject a drastic limitation of sources was necessary.Dissertation (MA (German))--University of Pretoria, 2005.
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Duwe, Paula. "The role of bicultural identity integration and contact meta perceptions on intergroup contact experiences of Turkish-German minority group members." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/23520.
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The present correlational study examined if Turkish-German’s meta perceptions of the ingroup’s and outgroup’s desire for intergroup contact and their bicultural identity integration (BII) were associated with their experiences of positive and negative intergroup contact. Specifically, it examined whether Turkish-Germans meta perceptions of the outgroup’s desire for contact were related to positive and negative contact experiences; whether bicultural identity integration would moderate the relationship of meta perceptions of the ingroup’s desire for contact and positive and negative intergroup contact experiences; and finally, if bicultural identity integration regarding harmony and blendedness is related to positive and negative intergroup contact experiences. In total, 130 Turkish-German biculturals, mainly first- and second-generation immigrants living in Germany, participated in the online survey. Results indicated that only the meta perception of the outgroup’s desire for intergroup contact was associated to positive and negative intergroup contact, whereas the ingroup’s meta perception was not. Additionally, bicultural identity integration did not moderate the relationship of meta perceptions of the ingroup’s desire for intergroup contact and positive and negative intergroup contact experiences. Finally, bicultural identity integration, especially the harmony dimension, was strongly related to positive and negative intergroup contact experiences. Overall, these results extended existing knowledge of how minorities, especially biculturals, experience intergroup contact and highlighted the importance of considering relational aspects, such as meta perceptions, as well as identity integration as important aspects within contact research.O presente estudo correlacional examinou a relação entre meta percepções sobre o desejo de contacto intergrupal, a integração da identidade bicultural e as experiências de contacto intergrupal positivo e negativo em indivíduos biculturais (Turcos-Alemães). Especificamente, examinou-se se meta percepções de desejo de contacto do exogrupo estão relacionadas com experiências de contacto positivas e negativas; se a integração da identidade bicultural modera a relação entre meta percepções do desejo de contacto do endogrupo e experiências de contacto intergrupais positivas e negativas; e, finalmente, se a integração bicultural está relacionada com experiências de contacto intergrupais positivas e negativas. No total, 130 participantes Turco-Alemães, imigrantes de primeira e segunda geração, residentes na Alemanha, participaram no estudo realizado online. Os resultados indicaram que apenas as meta percepções do desejo de contacto intergrupal do exogrupo estavam associada ao contacto intergrupal positivo e negativo, enquanto que as meta percepções do desejo de contacto do endogrupo não estavam significativamente associadas ao contacto intergrupal. A integração da identidade bicultural não moderou a relação entre meta percepções do desejo de contacto do endogrupo e as experiências positivas e negativas de contacto intergrupal. Finalmente, a integração da identidade bicultural, especialmente a dimensão da harmonia, esteve fortemente associada com as experiências de contacto intergrupal positivo e negativo. Globalmente, estes resultados alargaram o conhecimento existente sobre como as minorias, especialmente indivíduos biculturais, experienciam o contacto intergrupal e salientam a importância de considerar aspectos relacionais, tais como as meta percepções, bem como a integração das diferentes identidades.
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Candeias, Pedro Miguel Esteves Varela. "Portugueses pelo Mundo : Integração e Práticas Transnacionais de Portugueses na Alemanha." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/49997.
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As migrações intra-europeias correspondem uma parcela importante das saídas populacionais de Portugal. A pertença ao espaço comum europeu e ao espaço Schengen facilitam este movimento. Contudo, não tornam a integração na sociedade de destino um dado adquirido. A proximidade geográfica e a generalização de algumas tecnologias de informação e comunicação facilitam o contacto dos portugueses emigrados com o seu país de origem, contudo, nem todos o fazem da mesma maneira, nem com a mesma intensidade. Com este contexto, pretende-se conhecer a emigração portuguesa para a Alemanha, com ênfase na relação que estes portugueses estabelecem com o país de destino – a integração; e nas relações que são estabelecidas com Portugal – o transnacionalismo imigrante. Procura-se ainda identificar de que forma ambos os fenómenos: integração e transnacionalismo, se podem relacionar.
De modo a dar resposta a estes objetivos são analisadas, em primeiro lugar, estatísticas oficiais, tanto portuguesas como alemãs. Estes dados servem de contexto para o grande centro empírico do trabalho, que consiste na análise de dados de inquérito por questionário online, recolhidos entre 2014 e 2015, enquadrados num projeto mais abrangente sobre a emigração portuguesa. São trabalhadas 369 respostas a este inquérito por questionário com origem na Alemanha. A componente qualitativa conta com os resultados de duas missões a cidades alemãs com presença de emigrantes portugueses: Berlim e Hamburgo, cada missão deu origem a cerca de uma dezena de entrevistas. Os dados permitem perceber que a emigração portuguesa na Alemanha se trata de um acumulado de vagas migratórias que se têm adaptado às caraterísticas estruturais de ambos os países. A integração dá-se de forma diferenciada, e muito frequentemente parece depender fatores como a formação de base dos emigrantes e/ou da sua estratégia de empregabilidade. As relações com Portugal podem assumir diferentes formas e ter, de igual forma, diferentes fatores explicativos, sejam relacionados com o capital económico e/ou cultural dos emigrantes, a existência de familiares dependentes em Portugal, ou uma menor integração na esfera laboral ou sociocultural. Na conjugação de ambos os fenómenos, são encontradas diversas ligações, que assumem diferentes formas mediante a dimensão ou subdimensão de análise.Intra-European migration is an important portion of population outflows from Portugal. The belonging to the European common area and the Schengen area facilitate this movement. However, they do not take integration into the destination society for granted. The geographic proximity and the generalization of some information and communication technologies facilitate the contact of Portuguese emigrants with their country of origin, however, not all do it in the same way, nor with the same intensity. With this context, is intended to characterize the Portuguese emigration to Germany, with emphasis on the relationship that these Portuguese establish with the destination country - integration; and in the relations that are established with Portugal – immigrant transnationalism. It also seeks to identify how both phenomena: integration and transnationalism, can be related. In order to respond to these objectives, first, official statistics, both Portuguese and German, are analyzed. This data serve as a context for the empirical center of the thesis, which consists of the analysis of an online questionnaire survey, collected between 2014 and 2015, framed in a more comprehensive project on Portuguese emigration. Were collected 369 responses to this survey based on Germany. The qualitative component relies on the results of two case studies in German cities with a relevant presence of Portuguese emigrants: Berlin and Hamburg, in each city were conducted around a dozen interviews. The data shows that Portuguese emigration in Germany is an accumulation of migratory waves that have adapted to the structural characteristics of both countries. Integration takes place in different ways, and very often it seems to depend on factors such as the academic training of the emigrants and / or their employability strategy. Relations with Portugal can take different forms and have, in the same way, different explanatory factors, whether related to the economic and / or cultural capital of emigrants, the existence of dependent family members in Portugal, or a less succeeded integration in the labor or socio-cultural sphere. In the combination of both phenomena, several connections are found, according to the analytical dimension or sub-dimension.
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Omar, Cláudio. "Estágio no Serviço Federal Alemão para as Migrações e os Refugiados - Questões fundamentais de integração e transmissão de valores." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/65409.
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A gestão do fenómeno migratório desafia a sociedade de acolhimento à formulação
de uma estratégia de longo-prazo para a integração de imigrantes. Em conjuntura de
crise migratória, este desafio adquire uma proporção europeia e substancial carácter humanitário,
obrigando ao empenho conjugado de múltiplos actores e níveis de governo na
realização do objectivo final de integração bem-sucedida. O presente trabalho relata uma
experiência de cinco meses de estágio curricular no Serviço Federal Alemão para as Migrações
e os Refugiados (BAMF). Pretende, a partir das aprendizagens decorrentes do
trabalho numa assessoria consultora em questões de integração e transmissão de valores,
avaliar a utilidade da evolução e do desempenho da estratégia de integração da República
Federal da Alemanha como referência à resposta da União Europeia ao fenómeno migratório
que, em 2015 e 2016, confrontou os seus Estados-membros com um número inédito
de refugiados e requerentes de asilo. Com recurso a um enquadramento conceptual e teórico
inicial que invoca importantes contributos da literatura à operacionalização do objecto
de estudo, procede-se à apreciação crítica das actividades do estágio, tendo em vista
a recomendação de práticas indispensáveis de uma estratégia de integração de incidência
conjuntural.The management of human migration challenges the host society to formulate a long-term strategy for immigrant integration. In a setting of migration crisis, this challenge increases to a European scale and becomes substantially humanitarian in character. Therefore, accomplishing successful integration as an ultimate goal requires a joint effort from multiple actors and levels of governance. This report details a five-month internship at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), in a consultancy division on integration policy and transmission of values. It seeks to appraise how the evolution and performance of the Federal Republic of Germany’s integration strategy contributes as a benchmark for the European Union’s response to the migration phenomenon its member states are currently facing, in the wake of an unprecedented number of refugees and asylum seekers throughout 2015 and 2016. Building upon an initial conceptual and theoretical framework that gathers important contributions from the literature to the research subject, the report develops a critical analysis of the internship’s activities to address a set of best-practices essential to a conjunctural integration strategy
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Labisch, Diana. "From Critical Race Theory to Critical Religion Theory: An Adaptation for In-Country Struggles based on Race, Religion, Skin Color, and Capitals. A Globalized Cultural, Social, Political, Educational, Historical, and Contemporary “East versus West” Crisis." 2019. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34345.
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Multiculturalism and the merging of local communities with immigrants demands glocal policies in various sectors—especially in education. In order to successfully integrate immigrants, language acquisition is oftentimes the first initiative educators and politicians regard as one of the most essential attributes for successful and prompt integration. However, language acquisition cannot be separated from the need to bridge communities and their different values, tradition, ideologies, and identities based on their cultural heritages and religious affiliations. In order to properly respond to newly-emerging glocal dynamics in, for instance, classrooms, it is crucial to understand the shifts in racisms from black versus white to East versus West. Therefore, concepts need to consider different dynamics and embrace issues related to gender, sexuality, skin color, habitus, social, financial, and cultural capital, as well as educational achievement (gaps) on an interdisciplinary level. While seeking to find appropriate adaptations of school curricula, it is necessary to not try to run before one can walk—in other words—to not try to let educators teach before they have been taught cross-cultural communication. In addition, racisms cannot be limited to conflicts between immigrants and non-immigrants; racisms also occur among a homogeneous group. The complexity of reuniting and/or integrating various immigrant, non-immigrant, (Middle) Eastern and Western identities and their (intercultural) belonging is critical because of the various circumstances and settings that need to be considered for responding to linguistic, cultural, social, psychological, educational, and financial matters individually. Although there is not one concrete theoretical framework or outcome that can be applied for integration; this dissertation thesis functions as a roadmap for becoming more aware of regional and international struggles. Despite the multifaceted approaches that need to be combined and implemented in terms of second language acquisition, updated teacher training, cross-cultural policies, access to social services and support systems, etc., the education sector remains the foundation for prospective integration: Integrative and multiculturally-aware education provides the glocal society with intercultural and interdisciplinary-applicable assets and capitals. Such abilities help create a politically, socially, financially, culturally, and educationally responsible future embracing transatlantic intermingling instead of oppressing Otherness. Local and global communities benefit from better-adjusted and well-integrated immigrant families and students. The better societies and politics educate, integrate, and value non-locals, the more societies will benefit culturally, socially, politically, and economically from the glocal population. The newly-introduced PIC SAM guidelines provide, in cooperation with key actors and community-centered programs for immigrants and non-immigrants, a roadmap for combining theory and practice in glocal contexts.:Table of Contents vi
List of Figures, Tables, and Illustrations x
Chapter One 1
Personal Narrative and Relevance: Education as Powerful Integration Tool 1
Rationale, Overview, and Global Integration and Education 7
Theoretical Framework and Methodological Approaches 14
Terminology 17
Steps for Globally-Adjusted Integration and Education 29
Step 1: Understanding Legal Challenges of Turkish Immigrants 29
Step 2: Understanding that Not Every Middle Easterner is a Muslim 33
Step 3: Starting Successful Integration in Kindergarten 33
Step 4: Nurturing Integration Instead of Oppressing Immigration 36
Step 5: Adapting CRT—From Colorblind to Headscarfblind 39
Step 6: Taking the Education Exit for Integration 43
Step 7: Taking the Education Exit to Integration 44
Step 8: Sprucing Up the Headscarf Image 45
Chapter Two 48
Literature Review 48
Chapter Three 103
“Other” Ideologies and Identities—Theoretical Approaches 103
(1) How to Approach Different Ideologies 103
(2) Reasons for Othering and Biased Headscarf Images 103
(3) Disempowering the Exotic Other 104
(4) The Danger of Ill-Ideologies 106
(5) Ideologies as Utopia and Fantasy 108
(6) Capitalization and Mass Economization of Identities and Ideologies 109
(7) Institutionalization of the ISA (aka the School) 110
Chapter Four 113
Individuals are Always-Already Subjects of Ideology 113
Concepts Creating the Multifaceted Constructions of Ideology 114
(1) Ideology as A-Historical 114
(2) Is Ideology “Real” or an Illusion? 115
(3) Individuals are Always-Already Subjects (of Ideology) 116
(4) Subjects within a Mass-Produced Media (Ill)Ideology 117
(5) Shift: From Dominant via Repressed Ideology to State Apparatus 119
(6) Concluding Thoughts on Ideologies 120
Chapter Five 123
Race as Product of Social, Political, and Educational Thought 123
Chapter Six 128
Shifts in Racisms: Whitewashed—From Black to (Middle) East 128
The Wende within Immigration and Globalization 134
(1) History and Its Effect on Pre- and Post-Activism 134
(2) GDR Museums—(False?) Nostalgia in Times of Globalization 141
(3) Cross-Generational Racisms and Racialized White Others 145
Chapter Seven 149
Different Social and Cultural Capitals: East vs. West (German) Habitus 149
Adapting Bourdieu’s Habitus to Different Contexts 151
Comparative Examples: Disadvantaged Groups in the Education Sector 154
Getting to the Nitty-Gritty: The Case of Oscar 156
Concluding the Nitty-Gritty: Political Trust and Progressive Educators 165
Chapter Eight 170
Reverse Activisms: The Importance of Transnational Post-Activism 170
Tear Down that Church! 173
Transferring Activism from the GDR to the 21st Century 177
From “Teaching” Activism to “Doing” Activism 181
East versus West: Striving for Balanced Activisms 184
Activism, Aktivismus, and Activisme—or Negativism? 187
Chapter Nine 190
Adapting and Diversifying CRT 190
Teaching and Learning German and Intercultural Communication 195
Global and Anti-Racist Pedagogies In- and Outside of Schools 200
Roadmap for Changing (the) Dynamics in Germany’s Education 203
(1) Cross-Language Policies: Bilingualism for Everyone 203
(2) Current Challenges in Germany’s Education System 207
(3) Key Actors and Levels in Addressing the Integration Problem(s) 208
(4) Solution Approaches 210
Chapter Ten 212
Glocal Frameworks: Adding “Bi-Religionism” to Bilingualism & Biculturalism 212
Getting to the Nitty-Gritty: The Case of Mo 215
Educational Policy Recommendations 224
Concluding the Nitty-Gritty 230
Chapter Eleven 233
Outlook and Conclusion: Striving for Glocal Awareness and Activist Change 233
References 243
Endnotes 263