| ADEFRA |
schwarze deutsche Frauen und Schwarze Frauen in Deutschland (Website in German) |
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| Anti-Discrimination |
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| Antisemitism/ Antisemitismus |
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| Assimilation/Assimilierung |
A process of absorbing individuals into a community; it assumes that they will become like the members of that community, and shed their signficant cultural, social anad ethical differences. |
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| Asylum/Asyl/ |
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| Asylum-seeker/Asylbewerber/ |
A person seeking the protection of a country other than their country of nationality. |
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| Aussiedler |
Immigrants of German origin from Central European and for CIS countries, who move to Germany on the strength of their "German Roots." Refered to as "ethnic Germans." |
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| Barrier Control |
Measures to prevent the entry of persons without the required permission, taken at the land or sea border. |
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| Border/Grenze |
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| Citizen |
A person with the legal status of nationality of a particular country. |
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| Cosmopolitanism |
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| Denizen |
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| Detention |
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| Diaspora |
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| Discrimination |
The result of action, deliberate or unintended, which produces inequalities between social groups, leading to refection of some of them. Discrimination may be economic and may result from intolerance or racism. |
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| Emigrant |
A person who leaves his/her country of origin or habitiual residence to take up residence in another country. |
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| Emigration |
Leaving one's country to reside in another. |
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| Enclave |
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| Enlargement |
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| Ethnic |
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| Ethnos |
Membership of a nation based no the shared culture and history of a group which excludes others. |
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| EU |
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| Exile |
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| Facilitation |
Measures to promote and enable movement of people. |
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| Guest Worker/Gastarbeiter/ |
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| German-Turks |
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| Gypsies/Roma |
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| "Heimat" |
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| Holocaust memorials |
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| Idea of Europe |
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| ILGA Europe |
Int'l Lesbian and Gay Association |
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| Immigrant |
A person who enters another country to take up residence. |
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| Immigration/Einwanderung (Zuwanderung)/ |
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| Integration |
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| Interception |
The act by a destination State, outside its national territory, of preventing, interrupting or stopping the attempted movement across international borders. |
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| Interdiction |
Generally interception at sea. |
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| IOM |
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| Internally Displaced Person [IDP] |
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| Irregular Migrant |
A person who seeks to enter and remain in a State without the permission of that State. |
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| ius sanguinis |
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| ius soli |
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| Jewish Museum in Berlin |
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| Memory&Monument |
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| Migrant |
A generic term to describe a person who moves internationally or internally. (The term does not indicate the direction of the movement.) |
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| Migration |
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| Multiculturalism |
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| Muslims in Europe |
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| Non-national |
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| Persons of Concern |
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| Protection Obligation |
The obligation of a State not to refoule or return a refugee, either directly or indirectly to a country where the person's life or freedom would be threatened . Sometimes called non-refoulement obligation. |
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| Readmission |
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| Receiving Country |
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| Rechtsextremismus |
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| Refugee |
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| Removal |
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| Repatriation |
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| Residency |
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| Return |
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| Safe Country of (First) Asylum |
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| Safe Country of Origin |
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| Safe Third Country |
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| Secularism |
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| Shoah |
Hebrew "calamity"; (the Holocaust) |
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| Statelessness |
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| Stigma |
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| Territoriality |
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| Transnational Citizenship |
In connection with migration, denotes a process in which immigrants constitute a social reality, combining features of both the home and host countries. |
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| Travel Document |
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| Turkey and the EU |
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| UNHCR |
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| Visa |
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| Welfare state |
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| World War II |
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| Xenophobia |
Hostile behavior or feelings towards foreigners. |
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