1973/2023 - From the "recruitment stop" to the migration society
21st March | Entrance from 4:30 pm | SO36
On November 23, 1973, the West German government imposed the so-called "recruitment stop". This not only put an end to the recruitment of workers since 1955, but also made a migration policy statement that is still valid today: migration should be and remain the exception. The "recruitment stop" continues to shape discussions, policies and legislation on immigration and belonging to this day. However, the "recruitment stop" did not put an end to immigration to Germany, but accelerated the emergence of our current migration society.
5 pm - 7 pm
Talks with Newroz Duman, Jasmin Eding, Fatima Hartmann, Tarek Shukrallah, Kimiko Suda, Azize Tank
Moderation: Koray Yılmaz-Günay
from 7:30 pm
Lecture performance "Shevek Iyapo" with Berena Yogarajah (poetry) and Vincent Bababoutilabo, Sophia Eftychidou, Johanna Schütt, Philip Theurer (music)
from 9 pm
Music by DJ Aziza A.
Venue:
SO36
Oranienstraße 190
10999 Berlin
In German spoken language, admission free.
A cooperation project of the Institute for European Ethnology of the Humboldt University Berlin and the FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum. In cooperation with Kotti e.V., Migrationsrat Berlin e.V., Ora 34, Partizipationsbüro des Bezirksamts Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg von Berlin.
Supported by: Federal Agency for Civic Education
Inauguration of commemorative plaques on labour migration in Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg
26th march
The history of labour migrants, often referred to as "contract workers" and "guest workers", is conveyed by two new commemorative plaques in the district.
At the sites of a former AEG Telefunken residential home in Kreuzberg (formerly West Berlin) and the Volkseigener Betrieb Berliner Vergaser- und Filterwerke in Frankfurter Allee in Friedrichshain (formerly East Berlin), it is shown that migrants have shaped the history and developments of the district and the history of democratisation and continue to do so today. The memorial plaques will be realised as part of the district's diversity commemoration.
On 26 March 2024, the district mayor and other speakers will inaugurate the memorial plaques:
- 3 pm, Frankfurter Allee 71B-75, (next to the Plaza Frankfurter Allee entrance)
- 5 pm, Stresemannstr. 30