Migration & Diversity

It does not help to turn the world around. It does not help to shake the Law as hard as one can. Justice refuses to function in a recognizable manner. An article of the "Berlin Anthology".

For four days now I have been in Budapest, a witness to a drama that I would have considered impossible in an EU capital not long ago.

"We’d like to retain Hungary as Hungary", says Victor Orbán in January 2015. Xenophobia is significant in his country. How a multicultural and multi-ethnic society became a mono-ethnic and closed one.

More than six million Syrian refugees are in search of a different, a safer place in their home country and yet only arrive at places that are currently slightly less ghastly.

Opening Speech of our 3-day-conference by Mekonnen Mesghena, Department Head Migration & Diversity of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Do the institutions of our democracy reflect the increasing diversity of our society? For the first time, a study conducted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity has investigated this question concerning the councils of major German cities. The summary presents the main results of the study.

The disturbing rise of right-wing votes in several states during the recent European elections asks for a revision of the concepts of integration, diversity and multi-culturalism. Michal Bodemann is advocating a new approach to maintain immigrants' distinct cultures, while at the same time open new gateways to institutional structures.

Internationale Migration ist heute eine zentrale Herausforderung für viele Staaten. Mehr denn je wurde in den letzten Jahren deutlich, dass die Migrationspolitik der EU reformiert werden muss. Hauptziel der dreitägigen Konferenz der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung ist, konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für die europäische Migrationspolitik zu formulieren.

"Today international migration in connection with the issues of regional conflicts, humanitarian plights, and the integration of minorities is one of the most prominent challenges of many nations. The main goal of this project is to launch new policy recommendations for a better balance in the migration politics of the European Union."