Project management: Prof. Dr. habil. Monika Alisch in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Michael May, RhineMain University of Applied Sciences
Supported by: RhineMain University of Applied Sciences and Fulda
Duration: 3/2009 - 3/2011

Project description:
The first two phases of a future workshop, the problem and utopia phases, are to be carried out on site with various migrant population groups in small and medium-sized towns in Germany with very different social structures and socio-cultures.

The results will be evaluated using the documentary method. In the corresponding sociogenetic reconstructions, the aim is to work out the objective core of differences in interests and commonalities. The evaluations will also show the concrete places where conflicts arise in the coexistence of the different population groups and what their interest-related backgrounds are. The results will be fed back to the migrant participants at a second local event in order to raise the profile of the various spatially related interest orientations in this discussion, to uncover the barriers to integration, possible experiences of discrimination and to work out starting points for local integration strategies. This marks the third phase of the Future Workshop, in which the most creative and diverse possible proposals for solutions can be developed.

Case studies have been and will be conducted in

• Frankenberg, Waldeck-Frankenberg district,
• Sontra, Werra-Meissner district;
• Ebersdorf and Neustadt, Coburg district,
• Kaufbeuren, Allgäu,
• Speyer and
• Bad Neuenahr - Ahrweiler, district of Ahrweiler

will be carried out. All case studies are implemented by students of the part-time master's programme maps-online, Sozialraumentwicklung und -organisation.

Publications:
Alisch, Monika / May, Michael (eds.) 2011: Integrationspotenziale in kleinen Städten - Rekonstruktion der Interessensorientierungen von Zuwanderern Band 6. Barbara Budrich Verlag. Opladen / Farmington Hills.