Our community
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Four artists from the GSBTB Open Music Lab that you need to check out
Learn more about four artists from our Open Music Lab and the distinct musical styles they bring with them.
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A one-on-one with GSBTB’s Project Manager
Get up close and personal with GSBTB Project Manager Friedemann, as he talks about his origins in East Germany, his life in Berlin and his hopes for the future.
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A musical ‘family in exile’
Musician and GSBTB community member Sami talks about playing music in Syria, his band and the Arabic cultural scene in Berlin.
What We Do
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GSBTB Talks Europe
GSBTB held a Team Up in Refugio focusing on the EU Parliament elections, inviting a plethora of activists and organisations whose mission revolved around increasing participation and creating awareness of the importance of the EU elections.
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The Global Kitchen Series: Sweden
Another workshop by the GSBTB Open Kitchen, this time featuring young Swedish chef Wilma and seasonal vegetarian food.
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Germany-Sweden knowledge exchange
GSBTB founder Annamaria had a week-long visit to Stockholm, where she visited several grassroots initiatives and organisations to share knowledge and expertise with each other.
Society
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Welcome to Berlin – but good luck finding a place to live
Skyrocketing rents and growing homelessness in Berlin. How can you help?
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GSBTB fronts LinkedIn’s nationwide campaign
What does LinkedIn have to do with Give Something Back To Berlin, migrants and refugees? As it turns out, quite a lot.
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Crossing Borders: Showcasing Positive Stories of Migrant Integration into German Society Part II
The second part of a series in collaboration with the Post-Conflict Research Center about what we can learn from Bosnian migration to Germany in the 1990s.
Migration Matters
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Migration Matters was founded in 2016 to address the public’s biggest conundrums and fears surrounding migration and the so-called refugee crisis.
Their free video-based courses break down commonly held preconceptions about migration and offer nuanced and solution-oriented perspectives from leading thinkers in the field: researchers, practitioners, as well as migrants and refugees themselves.
We've partnered with Migration Matters to arm our community with fact-based information about migration, driven by experts.
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Integration: What Works and What Doesn’t Work?
Part six of our course Six Impossible Ideas (after Brexit): Right now, the integration of refugees and migrants is a policy priority for every European government. However, according to Dominik Hangartner of the London School of Economics, we know surprisingly little about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to integration.
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Do Migrants Take Away Jobs?
Part two of our course Six Impossible Ideas (after Brexit): Many people think that migrants take jobs away from citizens, reduce wages, or both. But you may also have heard the argument that immigrants benefit the economy. So, who’s right? Well, it's not that simple, explains Alan Manning of the London School of Economics.
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How Effective Are Borders in Keeping People out?
Part eight of our course Migration 101: Borders have partially returned to the European Union, from Brexit to Hungary’s fences. But borders and visas do not always have their intended effect, argues Hein de Haas, one of the leading scholars in the field of migration studies.
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Are Migrants City-Takers or Makers?
Part one of our course Six Impossible Ideas (after Brexit): Suzie Hall of the London School of Economics takes us to a super-diverse street in South London, telling us what we can learn about the ways migration shapes modern cities and economies.
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Are We Living in a Time of Unprecedented Migration?
Part one of our course Migration 101: More people than ever before are on the move, right? It’s not that simple, explains Hein de Haas, one of the world's leading migration researchers.
Opinion
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(Un)equal access to the dancefloor
Being a woman in the music scene is no easy feat - and being an immigrant often makes it harder. Äggi Blu is here to give you the full run-down of the many layers of discrimination she's experienced during her electronic music journey.
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Tackling the refugee crisis head on: the intersection of mental health and socioeconomic position
Thayjas Patil writes about the lack of mental healthcare provision for refugees in Berlin, and how economic constraints placed on them often exacerbate the situation.
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Humans of climate change
Hertie student Stefanie Mavrakou writes a compelling piece on environmental refugees and how terminology hinders their recognition in the international refugee regime.
Mental Health with Eed Be Eed
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GSBTB partnered with Arabic-German newspaper Eed Be Eed for a special edition of the newspaper focused on mental health. Here we present a selection of the articles, many of them available in English, German and Arabic.
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“I love my son differently”
Diana al-Atwani writes about her relationship with her mother, and the lessons she has carried forward when fostering bonds with her own son.
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Birds, prayers and how to play the strings of the soul: thoughts about the Islamic reflections on music therapy
Though modern psychiatry lauds 'new discoveries' such as music therapy, music has been used as a therapeutic tool for centuries in Islamic societies - find out how in this article.
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Overcoming survivor’s guilt
A step-by-step guide to overcoming the survivor's guilt that manifests itself within you.
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What connects us all: survivor’s guilt as a universal human experience
Hania Hakiel and Antonia Stasiuk draw comparisons between the experiences of survivor's guilt in Holocaust survivors with those of Syrian refugees in Berlin, to show how such guilt is a fundamentally human experience.
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I’ve survived the war, but why can’t I make sense of my feelings anymore?
Hania Hakiel retells experiences of people in Berlin who suffer from survivor's guilt, showing the different ways in which this guilt can manifest in the body and the mind as well as steps one can take to address it.