This paper aims to describe a kind of relations between Germans and immigrants in the 1990s in the case of a ghetto community in a German city. In general, the situation of immigrants from Third World countries, including Turkey, became severer after the German unification in 1990. This was the case at Bruckhausen in Duisburg as well.
The present author describes the situation of the locality on the basis of interviews with local people who are in the position to be able to grasp the relations between Germans and immigrants. Relevant documents and local newspapers were also used. The main interviewees are a pastor, a schoolmaster and a social worker of Turkish origin. All these informants communicate with Turkish immigrants as well as Germans every day.
It is evident from this paper that Germans and immigrants from different origins do not live together in this locality, but that they live side by side with no interests in their neighbors and sometimes with prejudice, antipathy and even hostility against each other. This atmosphere has been created over the last over twenty years in the local milieu, as the present author has demonstrated previously, and it was strengthened by the enhancement of German nationalism after 1990.
We should, however, pay attention to the fact that some local people and the local government have endeavored to construct communication channels between the majority at the locality, namely Turkish people, and minorities, namely the other immigrants and Germans. We can see some successful examples of communication enhancement. Nevertheless, the dominant atmosphere of living side by side rather than living together remains.
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