Stratified Belonging, Layered Subjectivities
The Complexities of Refugee Integration in Cosmopolitan Berlin
Recent studies show that immigration remains a top concern for Germans, with 46% expressing doubts that refugees can successfully integrate into German society. But what determines the successful integration of refugees? And what shapes their willingness to integrate into German society? Through qualitative interviews with both refugees and migrants, I investigate the relationship between their experience with discrimination and integration in Berlin. Importantly, I demonstrate how one’s appea...
Éditeur : Graduate Institute Publications
Lieu d’édition : Geneva
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 8 avril 2021
ISBN numérique : 978-2-940600-27-4
DOI : 10.4000/books.iheid.8207
Collection : eCahiers de l’Institut | 38
Année d’édition : 2021
Nombre de pages : 38
Recent studies show that immigration remains a top concern for Germans, with 46% expressing doubts that refugees can successfully integrate into German society. But what determines the successful integration of refugees? And what shapes their willingness to integrate into German society? Through qualitative interviews with both refugees and migrants, I investigate the relationship between their experience with discrimination and integration in Berlin. Importantly, I demonstrate how one’s appearance, ethnicity, religion, and so forth, can influence one’s experience with discrimination and integration trajectory; and through the multiple subjectivities I uncover, I show how complex the project of integration actually is. Additionally, by juxtaposing the experiences of post-2015 refugees with those of earlier Turkish and Arab immigrants, I highlight how the poor integration of earlier immigrants can adversely affect the integration of subsequent immigrants. Taken together, these insights challenge the image of Berlin as a cosmopolitan city.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to the Vahabzadeh Foundation for financially supporting the publication of best works by young researchers of the Graduate Institute, giving a priority to those who have been awarded academic prizes for their master’s dissertations.
Edison Yap Zong Yao holds a master’s degree in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva and a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons) in Political Science from the National University of Singapore. In 2020, his master’s dissertation “Stratified Belonging, Layered Subjectivities: The Complexities of Refugee Integration in Cosmopolitan Berlin”, was awarded the Ladislas Mysyrowicz Prize by IHEID.
His main fields of interest include refugee and migration studies, Middle Eastern politics, and democratisation and authoritarian resilience. Edison currently works at the SheTrades Initiative of the International Trade Centre (ITC) in Geneva, Switzerland.
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