Description
Book SynopsisThis book 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. The author guides refugee integration by showing Syrians how Germans think, and vice versa. First comes a panoramic overview of the West's Diversity Transition, now changing ethnic to mixed societies. The rescue effort is both corporatized and voluntary process-action, a mass form of government-civil society cooperation modernizing and speeding up conventional integration processes. Main obstacles include the national east-west split, the east's capital strike, and governmental efforts to manage Germany's spoiled identity through politicized stigma management imposed via the remembrance policy. These together make easterners second class citizens. Former refugees are ethnic victim groups unable to take full part in Germany's corporation-colo
Table of Contents
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.
