{"id":5233,"date":"2013-08-12T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T09:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/asylum-game-vs-reality\/"},"modified":"2013-08-12T09:14:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T09:14:43","slug":"asylum-game-vs-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/asylum-game-vs-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum: Game vs. reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Berlin-Hellersdorf<\/a>, the citizens’ initiative Marzahn-Hellersdorf defends itself with T-shirt imprints such as “No to the home” and the dates of the pogrom in Rostock-Lichtenhagen against a planned home for asylum seekers in their district. In Berlin-Reinickendorf<\/a>, tenants have hired a lawyer to enforce that children from the neighboring home are no longer allowed to play on the playground in front of their house. In Aarau, Switzerland<\/a>, the city council prohibits asylum seekers from visiting the local swimming pool, sports facilities, library and churches.<\/p>\n

At the same time as these racist actions, ZDF is launching the show “Auf der Flucht – Das Experiment” (On the Run – The Experiment<\/a>), in which German celebrities are to set off “to the countries of origin of asylum seekers in Germany” and thus “experience first-hand [erfahren] what it means to be on the run”. Instead of letting refugees themselves have their say, German state television prefers to produce a program full of racist assessments and descriptions. Nadia Shehadeh has<\/a> written an open letter<\/a> to the ZDF television council. It can also be signed here <\/a>.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, RTL and Pro7 are currently broadcasting similarly problematic series: Wild Girls – Mit Highheels durch Afrika<\/a> and Reality Queens of Safari<\/a>. The latter has now been discontinued<\/a> due to low ratings<\/a> and extensive criticism <\/a>from NGOs and many others. Not unreasonably, a commenter on africaisacountry wonders “What’s wrong with the Germans?”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Berlin-Hellersdorf, the citizens’ initiative Marzahn-Hellersdorf defends itself with T-shirt imprints such as “No to the home” and the dates of the pogrom in Rostock-Lichtenhagen against a planned home for asylum seekers in their district. In Berlin-Reinickendorf, tenants have hired a lawyer to enforce that children from the neighboring home are no longer allowed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[243,182,210,217,186,214,298],"class_list":["post-5233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asylum","tag-germany","tag-institutional-racism","tag-media","tag-migration-en","tag-racism","tag-reverse-racism-en"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"glokal","author_link":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/author\/carolin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"In Berlin-Hellersdorf, the citizens’ initiative Marzahn-Hellersdorf defends itself with T-shirt imprints such as “No to the home” and the dates of the pogrom in Rostock-Lichtenhagen against a planned home for asylum seekers in their district. In Berlin-Reinickendorf, tenants have hired a lawyer to enforce that children from the neighboring home are no longer allowed to…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}