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The recent influx of refugees has brought new adversities for countries which seek to grant
asylum for displaced families. Policy makers and societies suddenly realize the challenges
that urban systems face in integrating the sudden influx of newcomers. This dissertation
provides an understanding of the role that states and societies play in the process of social
integration of newcomers, using the context of Germany’s recent host of a large influx of
refugee newcomers and subsequent integration policies mostly in the educational systems.
This dissertation’s focal areas of study will be integration and refugee migrations as well as
matters of gender and sexual orientation within the barriers of integration and the influence
of trauma in performance and general well-being.
I will provide context on the relevance in today’s political and social environment that
understanding migration processes and what they bring to a society represents, I will
contextualize as well the coming of mass migrations to Europe and the middle eastern
conflicts that lead up to it.
This research will include interviews with integration agents such as an education ministry
member and professors and refugee students as well as community members which will
allow me to reach meaningful conclusions towards policies and its real-life impacts. This dissertation brings together different data sources to describe the current
characteristics of refugee integration; mostly in the educational system in Germany in the
hope of informing future decision-making and policy formulation and provide awareness
towards the importance and long-term range that integration measures carry.
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Keywords
Integration Immigration Refugees Europe Germany Gender Trauma Education