Summary / Resumé
„An Unruly Immigration Country“ – Interview with Helena Flam about discrimination and integration of migrants in Germany
Helena Flam was from 2002 to 2006 in charge of the German part of the EUsponsored eight-country research project on the discrimination of migrants. The comprehensive results (about schools, job market, political parties, among others) have been recently published in the book “Migrants in Germany: Statistics – Facts – Discourses”, Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 2007. The following conversation refers to these results. It fi rst deals with general questions: How has the interaction with migrants in Germany changed over the last years? To what extent are there still discriminatory attitudes? Which conditions are conducive, which detrimental to the goals of integration? Is there at all a guiding concept of integration? Can the possibility of democratic participation for immigrants be improved? The last part of the interview discusses the institutional forms of the discrimination of the children of migrants at school level and describes perspectives for necessary reforms.