"Migration Discourses in the GDR: 1945 - 1989" is the title of the article written last year by five members of the MigOst team on behalf of the Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb. Now the publication edited by Lobna Jamal and Mirza Odabaşı entitled "Einwanderungsdeutschland. 1945 bis 2023" has been published.

"It is hardly possible to understand the actual everyday life and experiences of the migrant population in the GDR on the basis of official accounts," write the MigOst authors, emphasizing the importance of contemporary witness accounts for this topic. They summarize: "[T]he invisibility of East German migration society [is] not due to the lower number of people with migration experiences compared to the West of the Federal Republic. It is the result of the GDR's powerfully structured view of itself and the joint Federal Republic's view of East Germany."

MigOst and many other projects are working to ensure that this "structured view" no longer dominates the discourse on immigration to the GDR and East Germany's migration society.

The publication can now be ordered under this Link.