51° first issue/2008: Integration
15 million people of immigrant origin live in Germany today – that’s 19 percent of the population, and a large number of them are still disadvantaged in the education sector and job market. Back in 2004, Stiftung Mercator launched a project entitled “Special tuition for children and adolescents with migrant backgrounds”, which is now up and running in 14 of Germany’s federal states and is aimed at producing genuine educational benefits for people of migrant background.
Professor Klaus J. Bade, a German migration researcher, explains in our interview why Germany needs an Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration. In addition, school student Bilal El-Rahal talks about the progress he has made thanks to the “Special tuition” provided by Stiftung Mercator, Professor Claus Leggewie, director of the Essen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, writes about climate change, and the first band “jamtruck”-band reports on its rehearsals.