Migration Council

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The Council for Migration e. V. (abbreviation RfM ) is a nationwide association of around 150 scientists in Germany who deal with questions of migration and integration , in the legal form of a non-profit registered association .

activity

The Council for Migration sees its central task in publicly critical monitoring of politics in questions of migration and integration. Since its inception, it has campaigned for a differentiated, democratic and far-sighted political design of migration and integration with its publications, appearances in public and statements in the media.

The advice is known to many experts through the migration report, which runs every two years from 2000 to 2010, with contributions from scientists on current issues of migration, integration and minorities and the overview "Migration and integration in Germany. Chronology of events and debates". In addition, the Council for Migration published the series “Political Essays on Migration and Integration” by 2008.

In addition, it accompanies the public discussion through further publications, interviews and contributions.

There are also conferences and workshops. For example, since 2013 the council has organized an annual conference in cooperation with the Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin .

Since 2012, the Council for Migration has been the project sponsor of the Mediendienst Integration , an information project for media professionals on the topics of migration, integration and asylum .

history

The Council for Migration has its origins in a group of scientists who wrote the “Manifesto of the 60: Germany and Immigration” in 1994, which was published by migration researcher and historian Klaus J. Bade . With this publication, the researchers turned against the position held in Germany for a long time: “ Germany is not a country of immigration ”. With this point of view, they accused politics of closing themselves to the tasks that resulted from the actual immigration and permanent settlement. They stressed that there had to be a serious debate about the requirements for an appropriate German immigration and integration policy. This attitude is expressed in the introduction to the manifesto:

“ In the short term there may be more important problems than migration, integration and minorities. But Germany's future also depends on a migration and integration policy with common sense and a sense of proportion. The purpose of the manifesto is to define the framework for such a policy, to outline its goals and content by way of example. It contains diagnoses, theses and suggestions, but no patent remedies. It sees itself as the start of a long overdue debate in Germany. "

The appeal was motivated by concerns about the growing xenophobia and the associated violent riots against foreigners, which the researchers attributed to the insufficient political structure of immigration and integration in the Federal Republic.

The manifesto set the tone in the debate about migration and integration in Germany and initiated the discussion in politics, media and science. The - in the opinion of the researchers - long overdue discussion process was initiated, the need for a conscious design of immigration and integration policy was anchored in the public consciousness. In 1997 a core of the group of scientists decided that this process had to be critically monitored in the long term and decided to join forces in the Council for Migration.

On July 7, 1998, the Migration Council presented itself to the public in the Science Center of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in Bonn. The stated goal was for the council to be composed of scientists who have interdisciplinary and international connections and thus form a network that covers all areas of immigration, integration and minority issues. The Council for Migration should serve as a contact for politics, justice, administration, but also other interested and affected parties. The guiding principle of the founding group was to accompany politicians critically and to provide competent information on questions of migration and integration. In the founding phase, the council was headed by labor law expert Michael Wollenschläger , with the German UNESCO Commission acting as patron.

In 1998, in its first recommendations, the Council formulated requirements for a future migration and integration policy of the federal government : targeted control and structuring of immigration, reform of nationality law , promotion of integration and a move away from the practice of only considering foreigners from a security perspective. These demands were included, for example, in the Federal Government's 6th Family Report “Families of Foreign Origin - Benefits - Burdens - Challenges”, which was approved in mid-2000.

In the summer of 2000 the Council for Migration was reconstituted as a registered non-profit association. On 27./28. June 2001 the members met in Berlin for their first meeting, which was preceded by a workshop designed by Klaus J. Bade on the subject of “Integration and Illegality ”. Political scientist Dieter Oberndörfer was elected as the first chairman of the new council, and Klaus J. Bade as his deputy. Freiburg im Breisgau was set as the club's headquarters.

On October 1, 2013, an open letter from the Council for Migration to the new federal government and the political parties in the German Bundestag was published, calling for a reorganization of migration and integration issues at the federal level for comprehensive and long-term socio-political perspectives.

In the run-up to the 2017 federal election , the activists criticized the anti-refugee tenor of the election campaign and also criticized the restrictions introduced in Europe in the course of the refugee crisis , including specifically the asylum packages I and II adopted in Germany .

structure

The Council for Migration is composed of around 150 scientists from various disciplines.

Board

The current board is formed by

Until October 2018 the board consisted of:

In 2008 the board consisted of:

Members

known members are:

Members who have already died are:

Publications

  • Max Matter: Not wanted anywhere. On poverty migration from Central and Southeastern Europe to the countries of the EU-15 with special consideration of members of the Roma minorities Roma in Germany: Nowhere desired ?! (2015) from the series Council for Migration , ISBN 978-3-7344-0021-6 .
  • Migration Council e. V. (Hrsg.): Conference documentation 2014 for the first specialist conference of the Council for Migration in cooperation with the Jewish Museum in Berlin
  • Marianne Krüger-Potratz / Werner Schiffauer (Eds.): Migration Report 2010: Facts - Analyzes - Perspectives , ISBN 978-3-593-39270-7
  • Michael Bommes / Marianne Krüger-Potratz (eds.): Migration Report 2008: Facts - Analyzes - Perspectives , ISBN 3-593-38778-6
  • Michael Bommes / Werner Schiffauer (eds.): Migration report 2006. Facts - Analyzes - Perspectives, ISBN 978-3-593-38176-3 .
  • Jörg Alt / Michael Bommes (ed.): Illegality: Limits and Possibilities of Migration Policy, ISBN 3-531-14834-6 .
  • Klaus J. Bade, Michael Bommes and Rainer Münz (eds.): Migration Report 2004. Facts - Analyzes - Perspectives, ISBN 3-593-37478-1 .
  • Klaus J. Bade / Michael Bommes (eds.): IMIS contributions 23/2004: Migration - Integration - Education. Basic questions and problem areas, ISSN  0949-4723 .
  • Klaus J. Bade / Rainer Münz (eds.): Migration report 2002. Facts - Analyzes - Perspectives, ISBN 3-593-37005-0 .
  • Klaus J. Bade / Rainer Münz (ed.): Migration report 2000. Facts - Analyzes - Perspectives, ISBN 3-593-36328-3 .
  • Klaus J. Bade (Ed.): Integration and Illegality in Germany, ISBN 3-9803401-1-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus J. Bade (Ed.): The Manifesto of the 60th Germany and immigration. 1994, ISBN 3-406-37429-8 .
  2. Jump up ↑ Bade: The Manifesto of the 60, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Paul Vorreiter: "Council for Migration criticizes anti-asylum election campaign" deutschlandfunk.de of September 8, 2017
  4. ↑ a b members . May 11, 2017.
  5. ↑ Board of Directors . 18th May 2017.
  6. ^ History . 18th May 2017.