Category: Berlin Study Abroad

Berlin study abroad seminar: assignment – reading reflection, week 5

Reading Reflection: Creative Activism and Art, Three Myths of Migrant Literature, and Migrant Literature in Germany  There were a few points that I knee-jerk disagreed with in Three Myths of Migrant Literature but marked to go back and think about. I’ve read several books that would fall under “immigrant writing” but I’d never thought about this […]

Berlin study abroad seminar: assignment – reading reflection, week 4

Reading Reflection, Age of Migration Chapter 10 On p 221 it says, “The third group consists of those countries which tried to cling to ‘rigid guestworker’ models, above all Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Such countries tried to prevent family reunion, were reluctant to grant secure residence status, and had highly restrictive naturalization rules.” This surprised […]

Berlin Honors: assignment – reading reflection, week 2

Reading – Chapter 2: The Migratory Process and the Formation of Ethnic Minorities “Much more often migration and settlement is a long-drawn-out process, which will be played out for the rest of the migrant’s life, and affect subsequent generations too.” (p 21) This point struck me, particularly as an American because we are all generations from […]

Berlin Honors: assignment – reading reflection, week 1

Reflections on Chapter 1, Age of Migration I just took the course “Migration, Displacement, and Return” last quarter, so many of the topics and points brought up in that class are coming back to me for this reading. We had begun with the UNHCR 1951 Refugee Convention (which can be found here) and was worth reading […]

personal identity reflection – Berlin Honors Week 1 assignment

I am a “nontraditional” (older, return) student and an only child who grew up in very Rural Pennsylvania, surrounded by farmland and forest. The last house I lived in (with my parents) was surrounded by 10 acres of land, most of which was cornfield! I remember always feeling very antsy and anxious to leave. I got […]