There is no such thing as “the foreigner”, but there are a great many people with an immigrant background living permanently in Germany. The Sixth Family Report [German] has examined the performance of, burdens on and challenges faced by families of foreign origin in Germany. It makes it clear that Germany has been an immigration country for a long time and that migration within, to and through Germany is not a phenomenon involving individual people but families. Immigration is therefore a “family project” that is not completed within one generation. Since gender plays an important role in families, gender aspects have to be taken into account here.

Increasingly more girls and women and boys and men are emigrating to Germany. If they are to be encountered in a way that does justice to them, then there must be a discussion of differences and thus of gender relations.

Here, you can find a selection of gender aspects which are important in the subject area “immigration”.