Berlin-#Neukölln: #Sonnenallee. Arab Street. شارع العرب.

Über die große Schwester der #Eisenbahnstraße berichtete kürzlich auch schon das (überhaupt sehr empfehlenswerte) Newsportal Middle East Eye:

” A melting pot where hipsters flock and falafel flourishes. The Berlin borough has been praised as a shining example of integration, but can old residents really rub along with the new? …

Experts say that the socially diverse population is in part down to geography, with Berlin’s most immigrant-heavy boroughs – Neukolln, Kreutzberg and Wedding – all lying in the centre of the city. As such, the areas are also attractive to students, artists and lower-income Germans, which helped to create integrated and mixed communities.

The contrast with many other European cities, like Amsterdam and Paris, where migrant neighbourhoods are pushed to the outskirts could not be starker.

“The rate of residential segregation is comparatively low in Germany,” Professor Ruud Koopmans of the Berlin Social Science Centre told MEE. “There is less spatial separation between immigrants and non-immigrants or between Muslims and non-Muslims in German cities than there is in most cities in other European countries.” According to Koopmans, the social mixture helps to eliminate racial boundaries that nourish radicalisation. However, concerns are growing that a housing shortage, a major problem in Berlin since the arrival of thousands of asylum seekers last summer, could help fan tensions. … .”

http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/berlin-s-arab-street-melting-pot-where-hipsters-flock-and-falafel-flourishes Quelle: The Berlin borough has been praised as a shining example of integration, but can old residents really rub along with the new?