Description
Rural areas in Germany are becoming more diverse due to international migration. Various groups of migrants have migrated and are migrating to small towns and rural communities. These immigrant groups have different levels of resources and are therefore able to orientate themselves in their new place of residence and to participate equally in various areas of social life - or, to put it another way, to integrate - to a certain extent, or they need support. Refugees in particular are target groups of state integration services on the one hand and the activities of voluntary initiatives and individuals on the other. In an impressive way, the commitment of numerous volunteers in the reception of refugees has contributed to an enormous social mobilisation in recent years, either from existing associations and organisations, but also from people who were not involved previously. At the local level, voluntary commitment is an indispensable component of successful integration of new immigrants. The EMILIE project aims to better understand the role and impact of volunteering for the integration of different groups of newcomers and to identify success factors for sustainable engagement. Therefore, special attention is given to the motivations for volunteering and the dynamics in volunteering activities over time as well as the identification of target groups. In order to answer these questions, qualitative interviews, which combined a biographical-narrative and a place-based, local research approach, were conducted in four rural districts in Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein. This approach as well as the results of the surveys are presented in this volume.
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