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07.12.2024 | Frankfurt am Main
Lecture, Panel Discussion

What do you think about migration – immigration as a question of national destiny?

 

56th Römerberg Talks
Immigration currently seems to be Germany’s most important problem. Elections are won or lost on this issue. The fear of growing crime, terrorist attacks by foreign perpetrators and the alarm cries of overburdened municipalities form a nightmare scenario with which populist parties are driving the political establishment before them.

Anyone who still advocates a welcoming culture, defends the unrestricted right to asylum or points to the importance of migration for the labor market and social systems is denounced as unworldly and blind to the concerns of a section of the population.

Time for a fact check and more differentiation: what is justified concern, what is media hype, what is politically motivated scaremongering? What do the crime statistics say? What are the possibilities, opportunities and limits of politically shaped immigration? And what happens to a society whose awareness of the problem is narrowed down to the issue of containing unwanted migration?

Moderation: Hadija Haruna-Oelker and Alf Mentzer

The event is open to the public. Admission is free.

Program (pdf): Here…

Program

10.00 a.m.
Greeting

10.15 a.m.
Volker Heins
The Trump effect. A turning point for the migration society?

11.00 a.m.
Gina Wollinger and Thomas Hestermann
About fear: migration and crime

12.00 p.m.
Manuela Bojadžijev
Solidarity and democracy. In defense of the migration society

12.30 p.m.
Lunch break

1.30 p.m.
Gilda Sahebi and Thomas Biebricher
Progressive, conservative, right-wing. Polarization in the media and political sphere

End around 14:30

Unfortunately omitted: Ulrich Herbert “Migration Processes in Europe after 1945 – A Critical Comparison” and Aladin El-Mafaalani “One-sided Discourse and Complex Truths – The Migration Debate”

Zeit

7. December 2024, 10:00-14:30

Ort

Chagallsaal of the Schauspiel Frankfurt
New Mainzer Str. 17
Frankfurt am Main, 60311 + Google Map

Organisation

Research Centre Normative Orders of the Goethe University
Römerberggespräche e.V.

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