During the DiaMiGo Summer School of 2025, we read a story titled “The Truck to Berlin” from “The Madman of Freedom Square”, a short story collection from 2009 by Hassan Blasim, originally written in Arabic, but published in English translated by Jonathan Wright. In the course of the DiaMiGo Summer School we discussed the story

During the DiaMiGo Summer School in a workshop with Nine Fumiko Yamamoto-Masson, we talked about the term “Kafkaesque.“ It describes moments when reality tips into the absurd, when logic no longer applies and you find yourself stuck in a situation that feels both nightmarish and strangely normal. One Kafkaesque moment that immediately came to my

Migrants who belong to ethnic or linguistic minorities – such as Kurds or Imazighen – have often been subjected to assimilationist pressure long before arriving in Germany. In their countries of origin, speaking their native language or asserting their cultural identity could result in repression, invisibility, or exclusion. The nature and intensity of these pressures

This text examines how political concepts become depoliticized when they migrate into academic discourse, focusing on the case of “Relational Integration” in Migration Studies. To trace the evolution of the discourse, I draw on three key moments in its conceptual history: mainstream approaches that treat integration as a valid response to migration (such as Alba,