As of: March 14, 2024, 3:28 p.m
By: Friedbert Holz
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Anne Werner told the students about migration.
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Dealing openly with strangers: Eighth and ninth graders from Poing find out about migration.
There will also be an exhibition until March 21st.
Poing – Why do people leave their homeland?
On this burning topic of our time, global migration, an exhibition by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Bavaria shows the forms and causes of this movement in the multi-purpose room of the Dominik Brunner Realschule until March 21st.
Perspectives from history and from a global perspective are presented on seven panels in order to not only help children to objectify a discussion with really viable arguments.
“The district youth group, the Partnership for Democracy in the district and Respect@Poing approached us to show this exhibition in the school’s rooms,” explained Tina Minkus, teacher and member of the extended school management.
For the opening, 140 young people from the eighth and ninth grades came to the school auditorium, where team member Anne Werner, who works in the rescue service and does freelance political education work, gave a lecture.
At the beginning of her remarks, the former student of social relations and work asked the young people a quiz question on the topic of “People on the Move”: “For me,” said Anne Werner, “I want the young people to get a feel for the scale of migration and In the process, your first prejudices and your own incorrect thought patterns may be broken down.
Because our country, which has surprised many, is by no means the country with the most refugees.”
Racism still plays a role
She also explained to her audience what migration means as a drastic shift in the center of one's life and what reasons it can have: migration due to a lack of job opportunities, educational migration, internal migration, but also for climate reasons, because of natural disasters or fleeing war and expulsion .
“It is important to me to explain very specific examples that young people themselves know and can understand.
When people leave their homes, there are many reasons, but of the approximately 280 million migrants worldwide, only around 90 million are on the move." She also made it clear that people who have to flee for various reasons usually stay in their country , because very few would have the will and ability to leave it.
What was interesting in this context was that the young people surveyed mostly named Syria or Ukraine as refugee countries - they were totally surprised that there are also large flows of refugees in Yemen and many countries in South America.
“What is currently being completely underestimated,” says Anne Werner, “is the increasing number of people who will leave their homes due to the effects of climate change by 2050;
Experts reckon there are 100 to 300 million people here.”
Unfortunately, the issue of racism against people with a migration background also plays a sad role in this country; no one should be excluded because of their origin, skin color, name, language or even their different hair.
The Dominik Brunner School in particular has a pioneering role as a school against racism.
Ultimately, Anne Werner summarized her lecture in one catchy sentence: “Migration was, is and will always be part of our society.
Now it’s about how we deal with it and what we do with it.”
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