Working diary
10.02.08
Today we had some time to continue working on out podcast. For the last 30 minutes of the lesson we were supposed to have a discussion concerning the eutanasia of the Italian woman Eluana und Berlusconis reaction towards the whole situation. I had to represend Berlusconi’s position which was very difficult as it totally diverges with my own opinion.
17.02.09
Deadline for the podcast! So I looked for some interesting news worth talking about in my podcast. Coincidentally, I found this article about the progress in cloning dogs and thought that it would be interesting with regard to our English topic – science and technology – I read some more articles concerning this topic and started to write my own text. Afterwards I had to record it for 3 times because I always made a stupid mistake 
Finally I uploaded it to our podcast blog hoping that you’ll enjoy listening to it.
Focus on France
Our speech in the SF will concentrate on several different aspects concerning the processes of migration or rather immigration in and to France.
In order to give you an idea of what our speech will be about we just present our structure:
•- Definition: Migration; Immigration
•- Basic historical information
•- Reasons for immigration
•- Official settlements
•- Being an Immigrant in France
•- Effects of Immigration
•- Sources
I worked on the parts “reasons for immigration”, “official regulations” and “Being an Immigrant in France”.
On balance, you can infer that about 11,9 % of the immigrants came to France in hope that they’ll find a job, from the diagram.. About 17,3% followed because of family reunification and 6,5 came because of humanitarian reasons. They main part stated that they immigrated because of ethic ties, health, retirement etc..
After the Second World War predominantly men came to work in France. From 1974 family reunification and female immigration dominated.
Since the turn of the millennium the proportion of male and female immigrants has evened out.
In June 2006 the new Immigration Act especially focusing on the family reunion came into force. On the one hand the immigrants have to deal with a test concerning their knowledge of the French language, culture and the values of the Republic in their country of origine and on the other hand they have to proof that the in France living relative has financial means for familiy ( minimum: 1280 € per month ).
Contrary to Sarkozy’s requirements that a DNA test should mendatoried to proof the relationship of following family members the Act was attenuated. Now, the immigrants have the possibiliy to have a test voluntarily, paied by the French government. These tests are a advantage for them as it is faster than the bureaucratic way to get the permit of resistance.
Furthermore it’s just allowed to prove the relationship to the mother so that these tests can’t reveal illigimated children.
Another change of the act concerns the right to stay after having stayed in France for 10 years (also illegal) which was abolished right now.
Sarkozy also intensified the deportation. During the first five months of this year about 150000 foreigners without permit of resistance were deported which is about 80 % more than the last year.
In contrast to the hard regulations concerning deportation and the genereal immigration qualified students, workers and scientists from coutries, not being included in the EU, are allowed to stay in France for 3 years without any problems.
By this means, Sarkozy wants to attract the generation of qualified workers and defeats unqualified immigrants from Africa.
What does it mean to be an immigrant in France?
At first it’s important to know that most if the immigrants come from the Maghreb (former French colonies). They come to France in the hope to find work but they just get low-paied jobs in fabrics, at big plantations and for harvest. Moreover a lot of women have to prostitute themselves.
Although colonies are free, the colonial connections are still existing and colonial oppression and rasistic discrimination can still be found in the French society nowadays.
Immigrants in France have to deal with the so called „double peine“ meaning that they are punished harder for committing a crime than French people and afterwards they are deported.
There are even special laws declaring that youths in suburbs are not allowed to stay outside at a certain time in the evening and the polie it authorized to arrest them if they violate this law.
In the gaol for deported persons the immigrants have to deal with very bad conditions like overcrowding, hygienic grievances and bad treatment. Bedsheets and blanket are just changed each 4 months to save costs and the policemen use taser against the imprisoned people.
But the French government never tried to improve the immigrants’ situation causing a lot of resistance and 
riots. On example are the youths who violated in Paris in 2005 by setting cars on fire etc. In the gaol for deported persons in Vincennes the imprisoned immigrants revolted and burned their mattresses resulting in burning down the whole complex of buildings.
All this riots especially in the banlieus are a form of their fight for dignity and rights characterizing the French history. But this is often ignored.
Anna’s parts are depicted in detail on her blog: http://an07na.wordpress.com/
Immigration Topic
Anna and I chose France to work on the immigration topic in detail.
At first we decided to find some information on the internet on our own before we sat together to plan our presentation. We came to the decision to split our presentation into about 4 parts and each of us will work on 2 parts on his own. So, hopefully next Tuesday we can put our results together and create the powerpoint presentation together.
Some interesting links:
http://www.focus-migration.de/France.1231.0.html?&L=1
http://www.no-racism.net/old/deportatiNO/frankreich_immigration060402.htm
http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/category/france/
http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/france/0,,3318970,00-sans-papiers-regularises-.html
London
What I would like to see in London:
- Big Ben
- London Eye
- Trafalgar square
- Buckingham Palace
- Camden Market
- Westminster Abbey
- St. Pauls Cathedral
- National Galerie
- Dungeon
- London Bridge
Special hints from a friend of mine who stayed in London for the last year:
- Tate Mondern
- Thamsepath
- St. James park
- on Thursday the musical tickets are especially cheap
- Tube and bus: there is something called “Oyster”. Thats an electrical card and you have to put some money on it. When you are passing these barriers towards the tube the money for the trip is docked off. But it stops at 5,70 which is the price for a one-day-ticket. You can use this card in the tube and in the bus and it seems to be the cheapest option for one day.
Graf Goetzen
<c> picture: http://www.schiffbau-papenburg.de/Bilder/EhemaligGebauteSchiffe/Bild%20Nr.20.jpg
The passenger ship “Graf Goetzen” today known as “Ms Liemba” was built by command of the German emporer Wilhelm II. in 1913 in the Meyer-Werft in Papenburg, Lower Saxony.
After the ten-month building time the ship, belted with 160000 rivets, was taken apart, packed in 5000 wooden boxes and brought to Kigoma at the Lake Tanganyika to show the presence of the colonial ruler in the German colony German East Africa. At first the 5000 wooden boxes got from Papenburg to Hamburg by train from where they were brought to Daressalam, the colony’s capital, by steamboat. Arrived in Daressalam the boxes were loaded on the recently constructed and opened central line transporting them wide into the heart of the country. As the part of the rail route leading to the Lake Tanganyika was still missing the boxes had to be dragged to Kigoma, an old colonial city at the lake, by hundreds of local inhabitants. Here about 270 persons (250 local inhabitants, 20 Indians) started to rebuild the ship under the direction of the three shipbuilders of the Meyer-Werft who travelled with the boxes so that it started its first crossing in February, 1915. In the following time of war the Graf Goetzen was sunk two times but it could be rescued each time and today its still in use fulfillig its obligations to transport passengers and cargo across the lake.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Liemba ; http://www.zeit.de/2001/37/200137_kreuzfahrt.afrik.xml
Structure
This is the provisional and still rough structure of my Facharbeit. After having finished reading the book I may reduce or complete it to get a correct and entire structure in the end.
State of my Facharbeit
Before the easter vacations I wasn’t really sure about a topic. So after having been able to pull myself together and finding some time I sat down in front of my laptop and started to search google for something interesting and worth to be worked on. At first I thought about writing about development aid and read some articles and pages in the internet. Coincidentally I came across a page where they mentioned something about children in war. This topic interested me and I changed my search and tried to get some information about child soldiers. In the internet there were a lot of articles and organisations worth reading about and this topic started to fetter me so that I decided to write about child soldiers in Africa. But I was not yet sure whether I should write about this topic in general or based on a book. That’s the reason why I searched google for some literatur concerning this topic and I came across with the book “A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier” by Ishmael Beah again and again.
After having read about him and his book I arrived at the decision to take this as the base for my Facharbeit and to write about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during its civil war.
Until now I just collected information from the internet and downloaded some pdf-documents from the German organisation “Terre des hommes” that could be useful. I also started to create the structure but I’m net yet sure how much I have to concentrate on the book and what will be worth being worked on because there are a lot of possibilities and potential topics.
So I decided to finish the book at first and then I think I’ll be able to create the definitive structure.
Georg W. Bush in Tanzania
He’ s on tour to fight against poverty and deseases like HIV, AIDS and malaria. Therefore he’s going to spend $30 billion for mosquito nets over the next five years. Malaria is a very dangerous desease assigned by the bite of a mosquito and the consequential infection. It’s one of the most common infectious diseases especially in Africa where about 90% of the deaths of malaria are listed. 50% are children under 5 years who are strucked.
Bush sees his commitment as a duty to improve the situation in Africa but there are also a lot of critics who hold that he’s just helping to advance his image.
Merkel, Köhler and Bush in Africa
Angela Merkel attends school again
Horst Köhler and Georg W. Bush also visited African schools
Tanzania: Colonial times
In 1884 the German Carl Peters pointed the German interest concerning 
Tanzania up. He founded the Society for German Colonization which concluded an agreement with the Tanzanian chiefs for German protectorates.
The German governance also involved disaffection and disagreement of the natives which ended in the Maji Maji Rebellion of 1905-1907. This rebellion was a union of some native tribes and ended with the death of about 120000 Africans.
After World War I the German governance ended and the United Kingdom took the governance with its League of Nations.
Tanzania achieved independence on December 9, 1961.
