Integrating Syrian Refugees in Eastern Germany; A Cultural Textbook

ISBN-13: 9781433168093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

Kamilia Rostom

Opis

This study covers the integration of Syrian refugees in Germany, especially eastern Germany. In this novel genre of "teddytext" the author visibly reacts with scholarly evidence to explain how eastern and western perspectives converge and differ.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Analysis - Overview - Coming to Grips with Integration: Culture and Science - What Challenges Confront Social Integration in Germany? - Springing into Action - The Corporatized Integration Machine and Process-Action - Empirical Findings - Integration Heaven: Berlin - Integrating into Berlin - Integration Hell: Hennigsdorf - Synthesis - Walled in Heads - In Memoriam - Remembrance - Assessing the Refugees' Readiness to Integrate - Appendix -Index.

O autorze

Kamilia Rostom is a writer, photographer, poet, people watcher (she is an Arab, after all), and nature lover. Kamilia studied French at the Sorbonne, got a B.A. in political science at Arizona State University and an M.A. in European studies at Carleton University. Her languages are Arabic, French, English and German. She has worked as a U.S. national senatorial political assistant, an associate editor at the Canadian Science Policy Research Center, an event coordinator for the International Sociological Association's Research Committee #26, and most recently worked to help make and apply refugee policy at the European Union Commission, DG Education and Culture in Brussels. Her scholarly contributions include work on Arab, especially legal, culture. She has recently published on behalf of the EU Commission themes of refugee education, integration and governance best practices throughout the EU.