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Migration changes lives. Globalization has created new and radical challenges for contemporary societies. 'New societies' emerge in part through migration. The 'indigenous' find themselves with new neighbours. Situations of migration create tensions within host societies, governments react in diverse ways and educational institutions and individual citizens develop coping strategies. Moreover, this situation also creates the opportunity for political projection of anxieties and problems that were already inherent in the host society, an opportunity which is rampantly used by right wing politics. 'Ein Mensch ist ein Mensch ist ein Mensch ist ein Mensch' (a human being is a human being is a human being …). Thus begins the editorial with the title‚ Das neue Gesicht der Globalisiering' (the new face of globalisation) of the German weekly magazine Die Zeit (22/9/2014). In this article Bernd Ulrich describes what is at stake today in Germany and in Europe as a consequence of the challenge of migration. Many African, Arab and Persian countries 'find themselves in a radical change that may last several decades' (ibid.). This will trigger massive flows of refugees. What does it mean for Europe, when many of these refugees try to find their way to our continent? 'We can of course try to keep them out of our territories with increasing methods of determent and intimidation. (..) Another possibility would be to turn Europe into a continent of asylum, a place of refuge' (ibid.). If Europe would politically follow such a directionwhich is for the moment more than questionable-a paradigm shift would be needed of the same magnitude as the very rapid recovering of (Western) Europe after the second world war, supported by the American Marshall Plan. Such a transformation of Europe into a continent for refugees could, according to Ulrich, be the only 'rational, realistic and modern reaction to the challenges of a globalised world' (ibid). Yet, the success of such response would first of all depend on cultural learning processes, whereby Europeans begin to understand that immigration, in spite of its considerable challenges, is not a threat, but an opportunity for the continent. And, since Europe considers itself as one of the inventors of the human rights, immigration should also be one of its basic humanistic concerns, since a human being is a human being is a human being. In relation to this, research on adult education and learning may contribute to a better understanding on how to deal with these concerns and challenges.
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