Immigration in Berlin

Representation
survey. In Wedding, the average age of the
respondents was 41 . The question about
personal representation by the city of Berlin
gave an average of 5.4, which means that
people feel represented, but that representation
could be a lot better. The results
for the representation of the Turkish community
as a whole gave similar results, the
average here was 4.8. 7 out of 1 0 respondents
could name a Turkish politician in Berlin, and
Cem Özdemir (head of the Green Party,
member of the federal parliament) was named
the most often.
Secondly we take a look at the results of
Kreuzberg. The average age of the sample was
36. The question about personal representation
was answered more positively than in
Wedding, the average was 7.4, which means
people personally feel well represented. And
again, results for the representation of the
Turkish community as a whole gave similar
results, the average here was 7.2. Lastly, 9 out
of 1 0 respondents could name a Turkish
politician, names mentioned varied greatly.
Data:
1 ) Berlin.de, the representative for integration and
migration in Berlin. Migration to Berlin.
http://www.berlin.de/lb/intmig/migration/index.en.html
2) Statistik Berlin Brandenburg, Statistischer Bericht.
Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner im Land Berlin. 31 -1 2-
201 2, https://www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de/
Publikationen/Stat_Berichte/201 3/SB_A01 -05-
00_201 2h02_BE.pdf
3) BZ Berlin. Hier leben die meisten Migranten.
http://www.bz-berlin.de/artikel-archiv/hier-leben-diemeisten-migranten
4) Questionnaire on demographic information, religion,
identity and feeling of political representation. Conducted
in Wedding on 09-07-201 5 and in Kreuzberg on 1 6-07-
201 5.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1 zeOezxIf5JoD2
01 ARkeFHBqaqXOT649neIXMB-0g724/edit#gid=0
What can be concluded from the results
extracted from the questionnaires? First of all
that there is a difference between the samples
in Wedding and Kreuzberg. People in
Kreuzberg feel a lot better represented on a
personal level and they also feel that the
Turkish community is represented better. The
age difference between the two samples is
relatively small, so this probably does not
cause the difference in the feelings of
representation. What might be a factor in the
positive responses in Kreuzberg is that this is a
much more touristic area then the area of
Wedding. The respondents were more open
and were in a way much more enthusiastic
about participating in the survey then people
in Wedding, which might be a factor in the
positive feelings in the survey. An important
comment to this research is obviously that the
sample was only 20 people. In order to actually
say something about the populations of the
two areas, much larger research should be
performed.
Els Rutten,
Erasmus exchange student
from the University of Amsterdam ,
BA in Political Sciences
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