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 UYUM UMUDU?  
AFRİKA KÖKENLİ MÜLTECİLERE AVRUPA BAKIŞI: DİL(LER) VE 
KÜLTÜR(LER)  
 
Çağrılı Konuşmacı  
Prof. em. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c.  Ernest W.B. HESS -LÜTTİCH  
Institut für Germanistik, Universität Bern, Länggass -Str. 49, CH -3012 Bern, Schweiz  & 
Technische Universität Berlin (TUB)  Institut für Sprache und Kommunikation  
Straße des 17. Juni 135, D -10623 Berlin /ALMANYA  & 
 
Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages  Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1  
Stellenbosch 7602 / GÜNEY AFRİKA   
 
 
HOPE FOR INTEGRATION?  
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ON REFUGEES FROM AFRICA: 
LANGUAGE(S) AND CULTURE(S)  
 
ABSTRACT  
This article discusses the controversial positions in the current debate on integration of 
foreigners into our society. Is there hope for a successful integration or have the politi cal (and financial) 
attempts of their social and vocational integration failed? Since more than ten years, immigrants and 
aliens living in Germany permanently are required by law to learn German. Therefore, special courses 
are being offered to them. Accord ing to a recent OECD study, these course programmes for language 
acquisition and cultural integration have been fairly successful. It is easier for the graduates to find a 
job than it was before the implementation of the new law ('Zuwanderungsgesetz'). How ever, funding for 
these programmes has been questioned which turned out to be fatal during the so -called refugee crisis 
in 2015 and 2016 when nearly one million refugees poured into Germany. As in the log run the portion 
of African refugees will increase ( as compared to those trying to escape from civil wars in the Near 
East), the following chapter argues for new ideas and supporting measures in dealing with the problem 
of their integration into European societies. Starting with an analysis of the causes fo r the current 
situation, the paper gives a survey of the facts and figures of immigration policies with special reference 
to African immigrants, their needs, their requirements, and their perspectives, leading to a socially -
engaged plea for more vocational  training and outlining the specific conditions for a better integration 
of Africans into European, especially German, societies.  
Keywords: Migration, African refugees, integration, identity, development aid, language 
acquisition, vocational training  
 
1. GÜNCEL DURUM  
Münihli düşünür ve Kültür Eski Bakanı Julian Nida -Rümelin son yayımlanan „Sınırlar 
Hakkında Düşünmek. Bir Göç Etiği  “adlı yapıtında „(…) sınırlar olmaksızın, bireysel, kolektif, 
kamusal bir özbelirleyim ile bireysel, kolektif ve kamusal soruml uluk olmaz. Böylece aktörlerin 
nitelikli sorumluluk üstlenmesi ile ilgili yapılar çözülmeye uğrar ” (Nida -Rümelin 2017: 164),