Political scientist Kamkin: in the East of Germany outraged migration policy

The migration policy of Germany outrages residents of the eastern part of the country. There are currently 3.5 million foreigners registered as refugees or asylum seekers in Germany. According to the Germanist Alexander Kamkin, the attitude of residents of the western and eastern parts of Germany to migrants is an indicative marker of the division of German society. “West Germans, if you will, are more trained in tolerance and tolerance towards migrants and other cultures. Beginning in the 1950s, the policy of open doors, the policy of good-neighborliness and tolerance was brought up there, especially when the mass importation of Turkish guest workers began in the 1960s, and the German economy was on the rise. In addition, the expert added, the attraction of migrants to Germany was facilitated by the German social model with the payment of benefits, for which migrants went. “While West Germans were more well-fed, they had higher wages, higher social standards, East Germans, who faced great unemployment in the 1990s, had significantly modest incomes, they were more negative about this flow of migrants,” he said. According to Kamkin, such a split led to the growth of the popularity of the Alternative for Germany party, which consistently opposes the country’s current migration policy. Earlier, businessman Elon Musk expressed support for the Alternative for Germany party.

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