In this edition of the newsletter of the Center for Integration Studies in June, you will be able to find recent information on the following subjects:
Last year, the work of the project "MigOst - Ostdeutsche Migrationsgesellschaft selbst erzählen" (Migrant East - East German Migration Society Tell Your Own Story) gave rise to the idea for another project: participatory archive workshops with migrant self-organizations (MSO) to archive material from their early years.
Whenever research is conducted on topics such as the right of residence for contract workers, support for civil war refugees, the "integration" of ethnic German immigrants from Russia, political asylum or everyday racism in the post-reunification years, MSOs are one of the most important sources. However, they themselves often do not have the necessary resources to explore their material.
Funded by the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship (Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur), the project "Archiving MigOst", which started in April 2023, deals with the early phase of the organization and institutionalization of MSOs and their role in the transformation process (ca. 1989-2000) by exploring and indexing the self-archives of MSOs and making them accessible for subsequent use by scholars and MSOs themselves.
Just like MigOst, the new project takes a participatory approach: Together with five participating MSOs in Dresden, archive workshops will be designed and implemented. Selected self-archival materials will be incorporated into a new collection of the Life History Archive of the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore in Dresden and meaningfully structured and made usable via metadata.
Archiving MigOst" is led by Dr. Karoline Oehme-Jüngling (TU Dresden), who is also the coordinator of MigOst. Her two co-workers are also experienced MigOst contributors: Paolo Le van (TU Dresden) and Nick Wetschel (ISGV).
Photo: Hung Cao The: Singing group for the Vietnamese National Day, 2.9.1988, Freital, GDR
Migration stories on stage
A special theater performance about migration stories in eastern Germany can be seen in Dresden on July 6 and 7, 2023.
Then the B:Club of the Bürgerbühne invites to the "Dinnor on se Bood", a satirical cruise "far away from any fear of deportation, discrimination and violence".
The play was developed by the amateur actors themselves and is partly based on their own experiences as people of color and with migration experience in Saxony.
The starting point for the creation of the group was the ZfI project "MigOst - East German Migration Society Tell Your Own Story", which has been collecting stories from people with migration experience and from People of Color in Dresden and two other cities in storytelling cafés and individual interviews since March 2021. The B:Club is financially supported by the measure "TUD im Dialog".
From 27.2. to 3.3. the internationally oriented Learning, Training and Teaching Activities meeting of the EU project DIG-i-Ready took place in Dresden under the direction of Prof. Anke Langner and Ralf Christoph. The goal of the project is the creation of a catalog for the digitalization of education for people with disabilities and is being carried out at the ZfI.
27 participants from Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Austria and Cyprus accepted the invitation of the International Federation, the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the Technical University Dresden. The teachers learned how to use AI-based technologies by including practice phases and received valuable feedback on the actual applicability of these tools in the context of self-regulated learning through the simultaneous practice phases of QUABIS.
Many useful ideas were collected during the sessions. These suggestions will be useful for all partners to eventually design guidelines and a collection of tools to help students* transition to digitalization and address their needs. It is hoped that the DIGI-i-READY project will also be able to bring about a change at the decision-making level to create more inclusive schools in Europe with the help of advanced learning technologies.
This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget adopted by the members of the Saxon Parliament.
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