Film screening: Millions of Germans - No right to a homeland?

In 2022, 23.8 million people with a migration background were living in Germany. This corresponds to 28.7 percent of the population. Almost exactly half have German citizenship, around twelve million people. The majority of them were born in Germany.

"I'm fed up," Mohamed shouts into the camera, twice. In his TikTok video, you can feel his anger and exasperation: "I've had enough! I do my bit, I work in care, I help German people with disabilities. And that's still not enough." Mohamed is 28 years old, grew up in the Ruhr area and works as a curative education nurse. "I love this country. I feel German," says Mohamed in an interview with Panorama. "But people always see the foreigner in me, I have the feeling. And they're just waiting for me to make a mistake," he says. If he doesn't make the mistake, then everything is okay. "Then I'm part of it. Then I've done a great job. But they wait for this mistake, they wait for it so they can say: Well, there you go. He's not part of us."

It is this feeling - of having a home in Germany, but still not finally belonging - that Mohamed currently shares with many other Germans with foreign roots.

Source: https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2024/Millionen- Deutsche-Kein-Recht-auf-Heimat,entheimatung100.html, 14.05.2024