Hart an der Grenze

Safi drags himself across the Balkan route on foot in winter. Omid wants to go to Germany but ends up in Calais. Melika is stuck in Moria. Award-winning journalist Isabel Schayani reports on these and other convoluted escape routes in her book Nach Deutschland (C.H.Beck, 2023). In Gegen die neue Härte (dtv, 2024), migration researcher and cultural scientist Judith Kohlenberger shows how society has become increasingly numb since the beginning of Europe's biggest 'refugee crisis' and how the disenfranchisement of people seeking protection has been normalized by a policy of deterrence and outsourcing.

How can we organize flight and migration in a more humane way? An evening with two of Germany's most important migration experts in the political decision-making year 2024.

The event is a cooperation between the Literaturhaus München and the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism as part of the "Understanding Our Time" series.