03
Oct
2016
media Ifri in the Media
Barbara KUNZ, invited to Sandrine Blanchard's podcast, Deutsche Welle

Germany - between 'welcome culture' and the outbursts of xenophobia

The 3rd of October is a national holiday celebrating German unity since 1990. What has the mass arrival of migrants these past years revealed about German society?

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Special podcast dedicated to German Unity Day. What has the arrival of 890 000 migrants in 2015 (figures from the Ministry of Interior, downward trend 2016 )  and their political management as well as reactions to the latter shown concerning today’s German society , 26 years after the reunification. Regional disparities persist. 

Sandrine Blanchard invited four guests to discuss the topic :

Barbara Kunz, research fellow at Cerfa in Paris.

Paul Nkamani, refugee from Cameroun that lives in Brandebourg

Jakob Preuss, producer that made a documentary on Paul and other migrants

Emmanuel Droit, deputy head of the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin

Listen do the podcast in French.

Keywords
Angela Merkel migrants refugees Germany