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The study "Potential and Limits of Independent Living in Private Households" (MuG III) provides a comprehensive picture concerning the life situation of persons in need of help and care within private households. Domestic care in Germany is still provided by the family. Professional services within the framework of the Long Term Care Insurance add to domestic care, with the central objective to support the private willingness to home care. Viewed in line with the trend, domestic care arrangements - also against the background of the effects of demographic change - prove themselves as stable and adaptable. Meanwhile more men are integrated into care giving, and the number of neighbours and friends filling in as main caregivers has increased, too. However, the still considerable burden is noticeable. The limits of domestic care become evident any time when there are not enough caregivers available, as well as in cases of people suffering from dementia who are in need of extensive care.

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This paper deals with perceptions, encounters and experiences of children with refugees and refugee children in Germany. It is based on the Fourth World Vision Children Study, which is regularly conducted in Germany since 2007. The study is based on a representative survey among 6- to 11-year-old children, which was combined with qualitative case studies and focuses on children´s well-being, their fears, their concerns as well as their attitudes toward other societal groups and contemporary political issues. For the survey of the Fourth World Vision Children Study, in the questionnaire there were also items included which should allow collecting data on children´s encounters and experiences with refugees, and particularly refugees who are their peers. This paper presents the approach taken in the study and how it is embedded conceptually in childhood studies before reporting and discussing selected findings on the experiences of children in Germany with refugees in their neighbourhood and among their peers. The findings presented in this paper refer to contact as well as interactions and opportunities for establishing friendships between refugee and non-refugee children. This is followed by a discussion of the implications these findings have in terms of consequences for supporting refugee children when arriving at Germany. In the conclusion, we will finally point out the implications of our study for the broader field of childhood studies in social sciences.