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“Stop stirring up hatred against refugees!”

Your reservations do not help me

Kefah Ali Deeb came to Berlin in 2014 and spent six years writing a taz column about her old home country Syria and her…

“My German failed because of the ‘integration dilemma’: I had a job, but was missing from the language course”

Please explain to me what integration is

Kefah Ali Deeb came to Berlin in 2014 and spent six years writing a taz column about her old home country Syria and her…

“What I want to forget becomes present, the past brings me back and my country pulls at me.”

The Syrian coast in the nose

Kefah Ali Deeb came to Berlin in 2014 and spent six years writing a taz column about her old home country Syria and her…

„Which society should I integrate to?“

„Which society should I integrate to?“

Kefah Ali Deeb reflects on her arrival, integration expectations and her experiences in a refugee shelter.

“It awakens in me the feelings of captivity and its terrible memories!”

Diary of arrival

Kefah Ali Deeb came to Berlin from Syria in 2014. In her text, she describes the first few weeks after her arrival, which were…

“We do not give up hope and confidence so that we can continue to live.”

Good Morning, Berlin

Kefah Ali Deeb came to Berlin in 2014 and spent six years writing a taz column about her old home country Syria and her…

Integration demands and their impact on belonging Clara Zink, Free University of Berlin

Alphabet of Arrival Cooperative workshop with people in exile in Berlin

“I erased my house from my memory and also removed all memories that stood in my way”

This is Berlin.

The expectations of refugees who come to Germany are high: they should integrate, learn the language, build a new life for themselves and at…

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