Blog

Reading Time: < 1 minute Finding a job is hard even if you speak the language, know how to write the perfect cover letter, craft just the right CV, and give all the right answers in an interview. Imagine having to learn to do all of that in a…

Reading Time: < 1 minute This week’s guest is Dr. Corinna Krume of Mosaique, a cultural center in Lüneberg that creates space for refugees and locals to meet, interact, and create cultural events. The organization hosts yoga, German practice, meet-ups over coffee, and much more. In this episode, you’ll hear about…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome to the companion page to the Minor Podcast Episode. Here you will find links to Minor and their projects so you can read more about their work. For those pages in German, I recommend installing the Google translate extension if you are using…

Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the most common types of refugee programs in Germany has been the meet-up cafes. It’s an obvious way to improve refugee integration as it offers an opportunity for refugees and members of the community to come into contact with one another. You simply…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome to Dallgow, a small town on the outskirts of Berlin of about 10,000 people. Here you can find the welcome initiative Willkommen in Dallgow which formed to create a welcome community for refugees when they arrived in Germany and found themselves temporarily placed…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Episode 3: Amal, Berlin! Julia Episode 04: Amal, Berlin! Asmaa Learning the language of a host country connects immigrants to their new society. However, learning German is a slow process, and refugees in Germany need to connect to their communities before they’re fluent. Becoming part…

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this episode, I talk with Jo of the organization Potsdam Konvoi about their campaign to bring 2000 people living in refugee camps in Greece to the German Federal State of Brandenburg. Potsdam Konvoi Website  – https://www.potsdam-konvoi.de/ Brandenburg hat Platz Campaign site (click here to…

Reading Time: < 1 minute At the foundation of Integration for Everyone is the idea that helping refugees can be beneficial for everyone. That is why the first organization featured on this podcast will be Willkommen in Falkensee. It is an organization that decided to help refugees in a…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Integration isn’t just for refugees it’s for everyone. This podcast explores the host country’s role in integration. You will hear interviews with Germans, both newcomers and long-time citizens, who decided to help refugees. In these interviews, they share their experiences which offer ideas on…

Reading Time: 4 minutes We use the word “refugee” to describe almost any person who has been displaced by war, famine, political instability, or persecution. The word evokes images of people who have fled their country, crossing borders in dangerous conditions, to find refuge in a foreign land. However…

Reading Time: 3 minutes How do we ensure that integration is just? In my last post, I discussed why understanding the economic realities of refugee resettlement is critical from a political standpoint. By embracing the economics of refugee resettlement, advocates can strengthen their case for helping displaced people. If…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Making an economic argument for refugees has one major flaw: it frames displaced people as units of the economy whose purpose is to drive growth and profit in the host country. But, refugees are people fleeing persecution, not the means to a booming economy, and…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Integrating refugees into a new country is a hard and complicated process. Enthusiasm to help refugees has faded due to this difficulty, and without so much vigor to help those in need opportunists, racists, and nationalists have seized political power in influential countries world-wide. The…

Reading Time: 2 minutes My name is Zak, I am a German Chancellor Fellow from Montana, United States studying refugee integration in Germany. In 2018, I developed the idea for my project after working with refugees in Missoula, MT. There I witnessed how a small community, with limited resources…