This blog post examines the evolution of Germany’s politics of return migration after World War II. It shows that migration discourses and policies, driven by changing coalition governments and contexts of economic crisis, have transitioned from accommodating guest workers to advocating for deportations of the ‘foreign Other…
Read MoreSince 1991, there has been an annual ritual in Germany: Around mid-January, a self-constituted jury, currently consisting of four linguists and one journalist, announces the “un-word” of the previous year, drawing from a pool of suggestions sent in by the public. An “un-word” can be…
Read More‘‘Since I arrived here, I haven't taken a moment off, I've always tried to educate myself, I've taken the language up to C1, and I've always worked. And then my Abitur was only recognised as a Fachabitur [technical diploma], so I'm doing my Abitur at an evening school. And I did everything I could to stay here, to find a home here. But they want to deport me’’. – Alia Hassan. 2023 marks the year in which the German parliament unanimously recognised the genocide of the Yazidi population in Shingal (kurd.) /Sinjar (arab.) in Iraq: a geno…
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