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Welcome to MIGRApolis Deutschland!
MIGRApolis Deutschland is a multilingual and international online media platform. Its aim is to facilitate the exchange of information, personal experience, and different perspectives on migration, and its development within a multicultural society on a multinational, and cross-cultural unbiased basis. This forum presents through its editorial content in numerous languages well-rounded expertise and offers opportunities for interaction. Thus, the perception on all aspects of migration will be discussed.
MIGRApolis Deutschland supports people who feel different or left out in German society. The online platform offers an ear to those who need to be listened to.
Please note:
The current English website is under construction. Please feel free to share your comments and suggestions for further improvement:
info[at]migrapolis-deutschland.de
New in the English language category:
Klaus Otto: Dialogue thanks to Mystics – The Muslim Fethullah Gülen meets the Judeo-Christian Paulus
A short review
The study at hand undertakes a comparison of the worlds of thought of two religious teachers of Asia Minor - one of them Christian, the other Muslim – from a religious-political perspective. It further aspires to enable ‘dialogical access’ on a deeper level of being of the respective faiths. It argues that such dialogical process is made possible through the ‘the mystics’ of the holy word of the Bible and the Koran.
(24.06.2010)
A Small, Trans-European Story of Migration
- © Pixelio / wiewie
Concepts of Identity and Identification in England and Germany
by Johanna Lotte Betz
Societal discourses on identity – the ways in which people present themselves – and identification – the ways in which people are perceived of – are dimensions of living together that are tricky to grasp, abstract and apply meaning to. My personal story of migration provides an insight into the relative importance attached to societal identification along lines of nationality in two different European countries. I hope for the following account to be read as an invitation to others to tell their stories of moving and settling and what it told you about the countries you travelled and the societies you lived in.
For 10 years I lived as a German in England – a considerable period of time and yet I can count on my ten fingers the incidences when I was asked `where I was from´ as an introductory question in a small talk situation.
(02.06.2010)
Berlin: Rage Summit: Discussions, Re-Readings, Dialogical Inquiries
Fri 07.05.2010 - Sun 09.05.2010
Researchers, intellectuals, artists, and activists from all walks of life will engage in a discussion about the social and political upheavals and ruptures, they will consider as well todays "tipping points" of individual and collective rage outbursts. At the Rage summit you can follow histories of protest and resistance, as well as the visual languages of rage.
(04.05.2010)
What’s in a Name? – What makes a person a migrant? Defining the term migration
by Marion Rissart, translated into English by Johanna Lotte Betz
The term migration derives from the Latin word ‘migrare (v) migratio (n)’ and means, to move away from one place to go to live or work in another (v); an act or the process of migrating (n) (Oxford Dictionary). Migration processes can have societal as well as individual incentives. Emigration results from cultural, political, economic, religious, demographical, ecological, ethnic and social motives.
Interestingly, most people associate ...more
(Here published on 2010-4-22.)
Dresden - Nazi Free! A city puts its foot down against neo-nazis
- © Stefan Ziller, www.stefan-ziller.de
On 13 February 2010 more than 10,000 protestors gathered in Dresden (D), determined to stop the annual biggest neo-nazi march in Europe. The civil society alliance 'Dresden - Nazi Free', a broad initiative of the antifascist movement 'No Pasaran!', successfully stopped about 5,000 neo-nazis with an enclosing blockade strategy.
(31.03.2010)
Bonn Declaration Against Racism
The „Bonn Declaration Against Racism“ was approved by Bonn City Council on June 25, 2009 on the basis of an initiative undertaken by local secondary school students.
We support this message and thus want to publicate it here !
You can read the declaration in english, german, russian, turkish and spanish.
(30.03.2010)
New on MIGRApolis :
The Guestbook !
If you want to leave a message for us or if you have any suggestions or critique then feel free to leave it here.
(29.03.2010)
New Picture Gallery : Kazakhstan
Nauryz : The festival of spring renewal
- © gdegde.kz
excerpt from our german part of the homepage :
On the 21st and 22nd of march the people in Kazakhstan celebrate Nauryz, the festival of spring renewal.
Our colleague Zhanar Muzdubayeva, who is from Kazakhstan told us more about the festival itself and customs associated with it.
You can read text here in german and here in russian.
(29.02.2010)
December 18th is the International Day on Migration!
In 1990, the Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (resolution 45/158). On 4 December 2000, the General Assembly, took into account a large and increasing number of migrants in the world and proclaimed December 18th as the International Migrants Day (resolution 55/93). Member States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations are invited to observe International Migrants Day through the dissemination of information on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants, and through the sharing of experiences and the design of actions to ensure their protection.
Links to UN and UN System sites:
International Migration and Development (Department of Economic and Social Affairs)
www.un.org/esa/population/migration/index.html
Migration - UN News Centre
www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp=
UN Initiatives on International Migration , UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service
www.un-ngls.org/international_migration.htm
Working Far From Home – Migration and Discrimination, UN Works to Fight Racism (E-press Kit)
www.un.org/WCAR/e-kit/migration.htm
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the Human Rights of Migrants
www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/migration/rapporteur/
Committee on Migrant Workers
www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/index.htm
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Air and Sea, supplementary to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
www2.ohchr.org/english/law/organizedcrime.htm
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
Global Migration Group
www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/GMG.htm
International Labour Organization
www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/migrant/index.htm
Unesco
International Migration and Multicultural Policies
portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1211&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
World Bank Group
web.worldbank.org/external/default/main
MIGRApolis wins first prize award in the competition „Wege ins Netz 2008“:
The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology organized the competition“Wege ins Netz 2008”, and awarded MIGRApolis in the category “Society”. More...
Intercultural Dialogue:
2008 = The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
