Christian Jakob

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Christian Jakob (born March 29, 1979 in Quakenbrück ) is a German journalist .

Life

Jakob studied sociology and economics in Bremen and Milan and global studies in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Delhi. Since 2006 he has been the editor of the daily newspaper , first at taz Nord in Bremen, and since 2012 in Berlin.

In his first book, Social Cleansing , Jakob described the displacement of the African-American lower class from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina . In 2011 he wrote to Europe closes - who pays the price for our prosperity? In 2016 he published Die Bleibenden , a story of the refugee movement in Germany. For his reporting on asylum policy, he was nominated in 2015 for the journalists ' award “Der Long Breath” of the Journalists' Association Berlin Brandenburg in the DJV and was awarded the Otto Brenner Prize of the Otto Brenner Foundation in 2017 . In 2017 he published with the Tageszeitung correspondent Simone Schlindwein Dictators as Bouncers , a documentation of the new EU politics in Africa.

Publications

  • with Simone Schlindwein: dictators as bouncers in Europe. How the EU is shifting its borders to Africa. Chr. Links Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-959-9 .
  • Those who stay. How refugees have been changing Germany for 20 years . Chr. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-884-4 .
  • Counter hold! - Myths and facts about migration and refugee policy . Luxemburg Arguments, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin 2016, ISSN  2193-5831 .
  • Refugees welcome - refugees welcome? Myths and facts about migration and refugee policy . Luxemburg Arguments No. 8, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin 2014, ISSN  2193-5831 .
  • with Friedrich Schorb : Social cleansing. How New Orleans drove out its underclass after the flood. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89771-484-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ taz. the daily newspaper: Article by Christian Jakob - taz.de. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Barbara Hans: Hurricane "Katrina": How New Orleans became a city of whites . In: Spiegel Online . August 29, 2008 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 12, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Internationalism: Social Cleansing. Retrieved November 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Gottschlich, Sabine am Orde - Europe is closing - A book from Westend Verlag . In: Westend Verlag GmbH . ( westendverlag.de [accessed on November 13, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Chr. Links Verlag: "Die Bleebenden - How refugees have changed Germany for 20 years". Retrieved September 21, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Benjamin Moldenhauer: Migrants in Germany: "The refugees have forced a political emergency" . In: Spiegel Online . April 17, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 12, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Die Bleebenden | bpb. Retrieved November 13, 2017 .
  8. ↑ The long breath. In: jvbb-online.de. Retrieved September 21, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Press archive Otto Brenner Foundation. Retrieved November 13, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Christian Jakob, Simone Schlindwein: Ch. Links Verlag | Dictators as Europe's doormen - How the EU is shifting its borders to Africa. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Benjamin Moldenhauer: Causes of Flight: "What is happening in Africa is European domestic policy" . In: Spiegel Online . November 11, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 13, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Jakob, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Quakenbrück