Al-Jazeera - The New Germans (2017)
Exploring Germany's reception of new immigrants and its long-term pursuit of Arab migrants as a demographic strategy. Nearly one million ethnic Arabs fleeing war and violence back home have come to Germany since 2015. This film follows one of them, newspaper editor and Syrian asylum seeker Ramy Alasheq, as he looks into historical patterns of Arab immigration and how the latest arrivals are being received in their new country. For Ramy and many others, life has not been the same since young men said to be Arab were accused of robbing and attacking German women on New Year's Eve 2015 in his new hometown, Cologne. It is a city that Ramy has come to love. But while he and fellow immigrants initially received a warm reception, there are now widespread calls to halt the entry of Arab refugees into Germany.
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