Photo credit: Children playing, by Armandas Jarusauskas, Flickr CC 2.0 Meet my sister’s friend and neighbor Nadia* Annelise: Tell me where you are from. Nadia: I’m from Egypt. A: And where in Egypt? N: I am from Cairo. A: So you were born in Cairo, … Continue reading On motherhood
Some lessons learned on the way until here: We do not all see ourselves as migrants. A minority of us considers itself as economic migrants. We neither have the same political orientation nor do we have the same way to express our political beliefs and … Continue reading Let’s talk about European asylum & immigration regimes
I am not an economic migrant, in fact it was not even a conscious decision to come to this country or even to emigrate. It was 2009, I was then offered a job here and I thought: Why not? I can always go back. But I … Continue reading “It was not even a conscious decision to come to this country or even to emigrate. I was then offered a job here and I thought: Why not? I can always go back.”
My name is Lara Pulsar, I come from Schleswig-Holstein and I have been living here for five years now. I cannot define myself based on the categories that you have been using. I am not a German, I am not an economic migrant. I am … Continue reading refuge (noun): 1. a shelter or protection from danger or trouble; 2. a place that provides shelter or protection
“What is interesting is how my family and friends back home perceive my accent now: They find I have an accent and make fun of the way I speak English but sometimes I speak it if I were speaking French, non? 🙂 “ My name is Bobbi … Continue reading Happy Hour: Americans in France
Photos: t-online_001 by Sebastian Küpers on Flickr CC facebook like button, by Sean MacEntee on Flickr CC This conversation took place in a Facebook group called Germans in Spain Anne Lise: Hi, so I have this blog… Anyone willing to share your migration experience? Vittorio … Continue reading Duden’s 5 synonyms for our title: Arbeitsemigrant, Arbeitsimmigrant, Wirtschaftsasylant, Wirtschaftsflüchtling, Scheinasylant
Image: Shiny Coat Watch by Trojan_Llama in Flickr CC KC: You are an American citizen, Marta, aren’t you? ME: Yes I am. The minute I could become a citizen, I did. And have voted in every election. I didn’t want to be a citizen of El Salvador … Continue reading Her
“What do you like now? Are you losing yourself in it?” We are at Tübinger Hauptbahnhof, it is ca. 09.30 on a Saturday morning. I approach B. as a I perceive that we have been both waiting for a while at the train station … Continue reading When an economic migrant meets an asylum-seeker
Economic Migrants 