Association of Alevi Young People in Germany

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Association of Alevi Young People in Germany
(BDAJ)
legal form registered association
founding 1994
Seat Cologne
Chair Özge Erdogan and Kamer Guler
Members 4 regional associations and 1 national association,
150 member associations
Website www.bdaj.de
The extended federal board

The Federation of Alevi youth in Germany e. V. (BDAJ - formerly AAGB - after the Turkish name Almanya Alevi Gençler Birliği ) is a German children and youth association. At the same time, the BDAJ is the independent youth organization of the Alevi Congregation in Germany and represents 78,000 children and young people of the Alevi faith.

history

It was founded in 1994. It was the first nationwide youth association organized by migrants to be entered in the register of associations in Germany . Since it was accepted as the first affiliate association supported by migrants in the German Federal Youth Association in 2002, it has sought full membership in this, for which it must have 25,000 members according to the DBJR statutes. On October 28, 2011, the BDAJ was unanimously accepted as a full member at the 83rd plenary meeting of the DBJR in Ludwigshafen. It is thus the first and only independent migrant youth self-organization that is a full member of the DBJR. In an interview with the FAZ, youth minister Kristina Schröder describes the BDAJ as the largest migrant youth self-organization in Germany.

organization

The federal office is in Cologne. The association is a full member of the German Federal Youth Ring and a full member of the Bavarian Youth Ring , the State Youth Ring Baden-Württemberg , the Hessian Youth Ring, the State Youth Ring Schleswig-Holstein , the Bremen Youth Ring and the Hamburg State Youth Ring, and on September 17, 2009, the association became the first migrant youth self-organization to become a full member in the State Youth Association of North Rhine-Westphalia and on March 4, 2012 as a member of the Working Group of Lower Saxony Youth Work Groups (ANJ) in the State Youth Association of Lower Saxony . In addition, the BDAJ is also a member of the information and documentation center for anti-racism work and of the association for international and intercultural exchange .

According to its own information, the association has 150 member associations (local youths) across Germany as full members and another 20 as affiliate members. In addition to the federal association, there are four independently registered regional associations of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse and North as well as the state association of North Rhine-Westphalia. The total number of members is 78,000 children and young people aged up to 27 (as of 02/2017).

The federal executive board consists of nine main members who are elected for two years at the federal conference (BuKo). The delegates can be elected from the local youth up to 35 years of age. The current federal executive committee was elected at the federal conference in Mannheim in October 2015. The federal board consists of:

  • two federal chairmen
  • Secretary General
  • Deputy Secretary General
  • CFO
  • Deputy Chief Financial Officer
  • Public Relations Officer
  • Education Officer
  • Organizational Officer

There is also the Federal Arbitration Commission and the Supervisory Board, each of which consists of 4 positions:

  • Chairman
  • deputy chairman
  • Secretary
  • Assessor

In addition, there is the extended federal executive board, which also includes the five chairmen of the regional levels and the student association (BDAS). With the Arbitration Commission and the Supervisory Board, these represent the entire federal level.

The BDAJ is recognized as a non-profit organization. The BDAJ, individual local associations and the state associations of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia are also recognized independent youth welfare organizations .

aims

The main goal of the BDAJ is the preservation and research of Alevi teaching, the commitment to a fair, solidarity-based and peaceful coexistence, support and advice as well as the promotion of young people (pupils / students), the commitment to human rights , equality between women and men , Freedom of all faiths , rights of oppressed minorities , integration of young people with a migration background and environmental protection . This also includes the motivation of young people to think and act critically and to participate democratically in all areas of society.

The federal executive committee pursues the goal of creating the necessary framework conditions for youth work in the member associations and helps them to organize their youth work.

In summary, the work of the BDAJ aims at topics such as B. Integration policy , career prospects, xenophobia, human rights, religious education in schools, environmental protection and education in the areas of crime, drugs and sexuality. As part of its projects, the BDAJ works and cooperates with other youth groups from Germany who are also committed to the peaceful coexistence of locals and all immigrants living in Germany .

activities

The focus of the activities is "the life of the Alevi (...) young people in Germany", in addition there is also an "examination of the everyday life of the (...) Alevi people who often live under precarious living conditions in Turkey". The BDAJ organizes educational seminars on various topics (including Alevi teaching, political awareness raising, etc.), panel discussions and youth programs. In addition, international encounters with other youth associations, educational trips and various workshops for different age groups are held. Leisure activities are also promoted, including theater and musical performances (music evenings, concerts).

The YouTube channel aleviTV was created in cooperation with the Spiritual Council of the Alevi Community in Germany . In the videos of the Alevi youth channel, the experts take on the various questions about Alevism and explain them in a way that is suitable for young people. The Youtube channel went on air for the first time in September 2014.

Seminars are also held in the local youth. These range from folk dance or Saz lessons to homework supervision and “weekend seminars with a focus on youth statutes, association structures, group conflict resolution, politics, Alevism, drugs and crime”. As part of its intercultural orientation, the association also conducts study trips, including trips to memorial sites to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp .

In 2009, three episodes of the television program “Talk with a migration background” were broadcast on the Alevi television station YOL TV , based in Cologne, with funding from the Federal Agency for Political Education . In the programs, young people with a migration background debated current political issues with decision-makers from politics and administration.

The BDAJ is represented in the nationwide leadership program for young migrants of the Bertelsmann Foundation . The former federal chairman of the BDAJ, Ali Dogan , was portrayed in the book "Surrender is not my way" as one of 12 nationwide young migrants.

Working groups

Since 2014 there has been a working group Rainbow at the BDAJ, which has set itself the task of representing homosexual , transsexual and intersexual Alevis in associations and actively and confidently educating them about gendering , homosexuality , transsexuality and intersexuality .

JAF (Young Alevi Women) NRW is a working group of the BDAJ, which primarily tries to strengthen the self-confidence of young Alevi women in NRW.

The TUN (animal protection and nature) working group of the BDAJ is a working group based on Alevi values, which on the one hand researches how exactly animal ethics is defined in Alevism and on the other hand it explains how deficient the entire society in dealing with nature and its nature Consequences like climate change are.

German engagement award

The BDAJ and its former federal chairman Ali Dogan won the audience award of the German Engagement Award . The BDAJ prevailed against the originally 1,800 nominated projects and institutions.

See also

Web links

Commons : Association of Alevi Young People in Germany  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://bdaj.de/index.php/ueber-uns/kurzportrait . Accessed February 24, 2016.
  2. Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration (Ed.): Sixth report on the situation of foreigners in Germany . German Bundestag, Berlin 2005, p. 94 ( Bundestag printed paper 15/5826 [PDF; 3.2 MB ; accessed on February 4, 2009]).
  3. Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth : Child and Youth Policy, Child and Youth Welfare in the Federal Republic of Germany , 2008, ISBN 978-3-924053-52-9 , p. 318
  4. Organizational structure and focus. Association of Alevi Youth in Germany, accessed on February 4, 2009 .
  5. In conversation: Kristina Schröder. FAZ, accessed on June 23, 2010 .
  6. Hessischer Jugendring - Our member associations ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. LJR NRW: Press Release Assembly of the State Youth ring NRW - 18. September 2009: . Ed .: State Youth Association NRW. ( online [accessed September 4, 2009]).
  8. LJR NDS: Press release on the 35th General Assembly of the State of Lower Saxony Youth rings - 3 March 2012: . Ed .: State Youth Association Lower Saxony. ( online [accessed March 4, 2012]). online ( Memento from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. http://bdaj.de/index.php/ueber-uns/kurzportrait . Accessed February 24, 2017
  10. a b c Dirk Hänisch: Child and youth policy, child and youth welfare in the Federal Republic of Germany . Ed .: IJAB - Agency for International Youth Work of the Federal Republic of Germany eV Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-924053-52-9 , p. 318 .
  11. a b Birgit Jagusch: Recognition of self-representation as a component of intercultural opening . In: Overview . tape 3/2006 , 2006, ISSN  1611-9703 , p. 9 ( online [PDF; accessed on February 4, 2009]). Online ( Memento from October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ The BDAJ ( Memento from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  13. Birgit Jagusch: Change processes in youth work: Recognition and redistribution as maxims of intercultural opening, in: IJAB (Ed.): Forum Jugendarbeit international. 2006/2007 Quality has an impact - developments and perspectives, Bonn 2007, pp. 208–223.
  14. Talk with a migration background. Association of Alevi Youth in Germany, accessed on February 4, 2009 .
  15. Ulrich Kober, Orkan Kösemen: Giving up is not my way - educational worlds in the immigration society . Ed .: Bertelsmann Foundation. Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-89204-982-1 , p. 10-21 .
  16. dhttp: //www.deutscher-engagementpreis.de/preistraeger_2010.html. Retrieved June 27, 2011 .

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