SLL20030- The European Project: Arabic in Germany by Jack Edmunds-Bergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a Poster by Niamh Poynton & Jack Edmunds-Bergin en-us 2020-11-16 13:48:23 UTC 2023-03-04 23:21:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f54b.png 2. ARABIC ACCENTUATES jackedmundsbergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/955974202 There are two huge factors:
1. Gastarbeiter in West Germany
2. The Migration Crisis
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1. Bilateral Recruitment Agreements with Morocco in 1963 and Tunisia in 1965 saw Germany have tens of thousands of Arabic speakers seek work in intensive labour within the industry. 7 other countries, including Turkey, were bonded to agreement also.
  • Whilst many workers qualified themselves to stay, with some taking dual-citizenship
  • Workers were encouraged home, being offered family funding for them to return to the Arab World.
  • Non-EEC gastarbeiter banned in 1973 due to economic recession and an oil crisis within the same year, amongst extra fears of Arab overpopulation from the CDU
  • By 2017,  there were approximately 110,000 Moroccans and Tunisians in Germany, the vast majority due to the "economical era",  bolstered by the gastarbeiter.
  • As a result, the Maghreb form of the language has been transmitted intergenerationally over the last half-century, making this a fairly recent phenomenon.
]]> 2020-11-24 12:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/955974202 1. WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? jackedmundsbergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/955980567
  • 22 countries ranging from North and East Africa into the Middle East
  • Approximately 420 million speakers
  • Arabic language and Islam faith are two compulsory bonds
  • Many Muslim countries (Turkey, Indonesia) do not count as a result
  • According to Statista, as of 2017, there are 1,234,635 Arabic inhabitants within Germany
    • ]]>     2020-11-24 13:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/955980567     3. SPEAKER NUMBERS EXPONENTIATE jackedmundsbergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963470940 2. Germany may have been given a quota of 203,000 migrants per year according to the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, but amidst a migration crisis due to civil unrest across Africa and West Asia, this yearly number exceeded to around 800,000, with Arabic speakers accounting for over half of this number between 2015-2018.
    • With the vast majority of immigrants to Europe being Arabic speakers, and with Germany spearheading influence within the EU, the match was made
    • The Syrian population within Germany doubled within a single year (366,556...637,485) primarily due to the rise of political corruption and terrorism growth
    • The rest of the Arab League saw its inhabitants numbers within Germany grow by at least 10% every year within this period as well
    • Iraqi populations within Germany substantially grew as well, with many being ethnic Kurds, but also a considerable number of Arabic speaking people from Iraq
    ]]>     2020-11-26 13:27:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963470940     4. NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA jackedmundsbergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963552081 As numbers of Arabic speakers trend across the country, two localities stand out with Berlin as "pockets" for Arabic speakers.
    1. North Rhine-Westphalia Region (most populous of the 16 states; with cities such as Koln and Dusseldorf)
    2. Leipzig- the only city in former East Germany boasting a sizeable population
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    1. Rhine-Ruhr, NRW:
    The administration area of Munster, Dusseldorf, Koln and Arnsberg makes up the Rhine-Ruhr- the highest concentration of Arabic speakers in the country.

    A state with 17.6 million people, Arabic speaker numbers have boosted massively, subsequently due to the migration crisis- and now one-fifth of Arabic migrants live in this region. (Bleiker, 2015)]]>     2020-11-26 14:01:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963552081     5. ARABESQUE LEIPZIG jackedmundsbergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963606986 2. Leipzig boasts a migrant population of circa 30,000, considerable for a city of half-a-million. Amongst this chunk are 4,000 Arabic speakers, namely from Iraq, but also from regions such as Algeria and Syria.]]> 2020-11-26 14:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963606986 8. SOCIAL DOMAINS- EDUCATION jackedmundsbergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963666322 Due to the immensity of recent immigration, which has been noted as significant across the Arab World by Al-Jazeera, progressives and many academics have called for regional or nationwide implementation of Arabic learning, comparable to the exposure of English in German schools from a young age.

    Thomas Strotthotte, President of Hamburg Private University, was vocal in his backing of an Arabic curriculum in primary, secondary and/or increasing the availability within tertiary-level education. He proclaims it beholds a pivotal status in making Germany a multilingual nation, a huge advantage for a modernised country.

    Others may scrutinise this proposal-  as learning a foreign language is already mandatory in primary schools across Germany.
    95% of students study English, and many believe that the inclusion of Arabic as a language option will bring panning opportunities and further integrate the minority language.


    ]]>     2020-11-26 14:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963666322     9. ANTI-ARAB SENTIMENTS jackedmundsbergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963685753 As encouragement of Arabic integration to German society proceeds, nationalist movements persist simultaneously.

    Whilst some uproar is not as threatening as others, few German nationals have made their feelings clear on the matter.

    Considerably large organisations such as PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) have attracted nearly 20,000 protestors at their events in cities such as Rostock and Dresden.

    Their willingness to reconcile may not be helped by the few who commit crimes inside and outside Germany, who clearly do not represent the entire Arabic-speaking demographic. A notorious example in North Rhine-Westphalia state is the rise of Salafism, an extremist Islamic teaching with direct links to ISIS.


    ]]>     2020-11-26 14:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963685753     7. DEVIATING FROM TRADITION jackedmundsbergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963715009 As German culture and Westernisation are two vitally different exposures to Arabic speaking communities, it has inspired new generations to be rebellious to a well-preserved, vast tradition. (Al-Hamerheh & Thielmann, p85-88, 2008)

    Moreover, the opportunity for progression with Arabic-speakers in Germany has created some cultural shocks- concepts such as "liberal mosques" and newfound solidarity for oppressed demographics within the Arab World, such as the LGBTQ+ community.

    Whilst younger Muslims integrating within German society feel a better connection between their European home, Arabic speakers of all ages have been integrating within society by paradoxically strengthening links with their own community.

    ]]>     2020-11-26 15:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963715009     6. WILKOMMENSKULTUR jackedmundsbergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963729177 The term used to describe pro-refugee and immigrant sentiments, which has caused a cultural divide within Germany, with Arabic speakers the fulcrum of focus.

    Contrastingly to the era of Gastarbeiter, the Syrian population (790,000~) welcomed to Germany are mostly young and educated at university level, adding to needed areas of expertise within an ageing German population.

    German economy has grown as a result of their presence, according to DIW Berlin's case study. It highlights "the 58% of working-age men" as a massive economical boost; perhaps compromising wages as a result.

    But many right-leaning politicians counteract the positivity with this movement as a hindrance on German identity. It is this cultural divide that over a million Arabic speakers are inadvertently accentuating, for both extremes of the argument.




    ]]>     2020-11-26 15:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/963729177     11. ARABISCH IN DEUTSCHLAND jackedmundsbergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/964320665 1.5% of the German population are speakers of Arabic. Comprehensively, Arabic spontaneously has radicalised its importance and perhaps its integrity within Germany.

    Uncertainty shrouds over the potential growth of this number, as a senile population rate contrasts with new demographics of many kinds, but it was truly something they could never predict.

    And for a country that has taken in over half-a-million migrants a year every year for the 21st Century (OECD.stat), there is some culture shocks that not even a robust nation such as Germany could prepare for- and who knew it would be worlds apart, yet only half a continent away...]]>     2020-11-26 20:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/964320665     10. HOW DO ARABS FEEL IN GERMANY? jackedmundsbergin https://padlet.com/jackedmundsbergin/ynii14suko1h491a/wish/964337212 In this link are genuine accounts of speakers of the concerned language in Berlin, home to 133,000 Arabic speakers. Some were encouraged by their new home, some who had been living there and those who are generationally bound to Germany still felt a sense of distance and segregation in everyday settings. The consensus however was clear- all struggled to fit in at some point and felt that Germans could do more to understand them, their language, their faith.

    However, according to public surveys by WELT and Bertelsmann, 96% of 1000 Arabic speakers and Muslims said they had felt a "connection with Germany".
     
    There are some reverse experiments regarding German relations with Arabic people that may appear as confrontational also.
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