Politicians, academics and members of the church have joined forces to try to change Germany's restrictive rules on dual citizenship. Currently children born foreign parents have to choose one nationality over another.
Half of all immigrants feel like outsiders in German society and say their achievements find less acknowledgement than those of Germans, according to a survey released Monday.
Falling numbers of immigrants seeking German citizenship require a thorough investigation, the government’s integration representative Maria Böhmer told broadcaster ARD on Tuesday.
The largest deportation of Vietnamese nationals in years is planned for the beginning of June, a spokesperson for the German Federal Police in Potsdam told daily <i>Berliner Zeitung</i> this week.
The number of immigrants becoming naturalised citizens in Germany has dropped by some 15 percent since the country introduced a controversial language test two years ago, daily <i>SĂĽddeutsche Zeitung</i> reported on Wednesday.
The former German colony of Namibia has become an attractive destination for German tourists and expats looking for a new home offering a touch of Teutonic <i>GemĂĽtlichkeit</i> - or hospitality.
Recently stripped of her German passport for violating the country’s restrictive rules on dual citizenship, a woman faces deportation to Turkey after living in Berlin for the past 40 years. Her offence? She overstayed her Istanbul holiday by 11 days.
The German government will try to tackle a shortage of qualified teachers in the country’s schools by taking on increasing numbers of immigrants to do the job.
With the first of 2,500 Iraqi refugees scheduled to arrive in Hannover on Thursday, Lower Saxony’s interior minister has called for their swift integration.
<b>Four hundred Iraqi refugees from camps in Syria and Jordan will arrive in Germany this month at the start of a European resettlement programme, human rights groups said Wednesday.</b>
After weeks of controversy, conservative politician Erika Steinbach has withdrawn her candidacy to become a board member of a German-Polish foundation aiming to create a memorial for WWII refugees in Berlin.
A Turkish immigrant who has lived in Germany for some 20 years will be denied citizenship in Germany because he is illiterate, according to a Baden-WĂĽrttemberg court ruling released on Thursday.
This week Germany got a few words of warning from UNESCO. According to the cultural organisation’s new online Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, the country is home to 13 languages threatened with extinction.
German residents who have frequent guests from outside the EU could find themselves monitored by the government if a newly proposed measure to combat visa abuse is passed, daily <i>Frankfurter Rundschau</i> reported on Wednesday.
The Bavarian capital Munich, home to the biggest community of ethnic Uighurs outside China, has offered to host the 17 members of the ethinic minority group held at the US terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay.
A US Army deserter seeking asylum in Germany based on his moral opposition to the Iraq invasion is confident his request will be granted after a gruelling nine-hour hearing, his lawyer said Thursday.
The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia will take on some 540 Iraqi refugees in the coming weeks, state integration minister Armin Laschet said on Thursday in DĂĽsseldorf.
An overwhelming majority of Germans wish they could have a Teutonic version of US President Barack Obama, according to a new poll released on Wednesday.
<b>A study this week showed Turks are Germany’s worst integrated immigrants, but is the country doing enough to make foreigners part of society? Monica McCollum signs up for the government’s official integration course.</b>
A new study revealing that Turks are Germany’s most poorly integrated group is not a problem of ethnicity, but a socio-economic one, the head of the German Turkish Association (TGD) Kenan Kolat said on Monday in Berlin.
A new study shows that immigrants of Turkish origin in Germany lag behind other migrant groups when it comes to education and jobs, news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported.
Some 98.9 percent of immigrants applying for German citizenship have passed a controversial new test that went into effect in September 2008, daily <i>Rheinische Post</i> reported on Wednesday.
The children of illegal immigrants in Germany should have the same “human right” to an education as German students, head of the parliamentary committee for education Ulla Burchardt told news agency DPA on Monday.
