User:Arakuresacred/European refugee crisis in Berlin

Demographics/Statistics
In 2015, 890,000 migrants arrived in Germany, followed by 280,000 more in 2016. In the first six months of 2017, 90,389 refugees sought asylum in Germany, of which 22,320 were Syrians. In November 2015, Berlin received about 10,000 refugees. By the end of 2015, 79,000 refugees had come to Berlin, and 54,000 of them were allowed to stay due to the federal distribution quota—11 times as many as forecast initially.

Housing

 * Berlin has addressed the problem of housing for incoming refugees by developing modular housing, including container villages in some communities such as Lichterfelde-Zehlendorf. The Senator of Building Affairs created housing for at least 2,400 refugees using this model.
 * The German government created refugee housing at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, a protected monument built in 1930’s by Nazis. The monument’s protected status made this decision controversial.
 * As of May 2016, 1,300 refugees residing in temporary housing at refugee shelter at Tempelhof. Refugees are meant to stay for only six weeks, but many stay for over six months due to the housing crisis in Berlin.
 * Some refugees without housing moved into abandoned structures in Berlin. In June 2014, refugees who were staying in an abandoned school in Berlin’s central Kreuzberg district were forced to leave by police. This resulted in an eight-day-long standoff between refugees and police.
 * The Tiny House University Project, created by Van Bo Le-Menzel, builds innovative tiny houses for refugees in Berlin. Architects, designers, and refugees all take part in the planning and construction.
 * In 2017, the team started work with the Bauhaus Archive to build 20 tiny houses that take up 10 square meters each.

Integration

 * Berlin and Berliners have created a number of innovative initiatives, programs, and projects to help integrate refugees through culture and services. Berlin’s “Carnival of Cultures” celebrates the diversity of the cities inhabits and their integration into local communities.
 * Theater workshop for refugees led by Fadi Fayad Skeiker took place at the Tempelhof Airport shelter in 2016.


 * Exil Ensemble, a group of six Syrian and Palestinian refugee actors created the play Winterreisse (Winter Journey) based on their true stories. It performed from April – October 2017 at Gorki Theatre in Berlin.
 * The dance company Total Brutal produced the dance piece Come As You Are, a collaboration between Berlin choreographer Nir De Volff and Syrian refugees in August 2017 at DOCK11 in Berlin. The piece was generated by De Volff’s work in dance therapy for Berlin’s refugees in 2015.
 * Berlin residents created Refugee Dinners, where locals apply to join in a dinner prepared by refugees. During the meal, they talk and exchange their stories. The proceeds benefit refugees.
 * The website givesomethingbacktoberlin.com, used regularly by young people, was created as a platform to connect volunteers to help refugees in Berlin.
 * Nou, an established tango school in Berlin, offered shelter and free dance classes to refugees in 2015.
 * Querstadtein offers tours of Berlin guided by refugees. These tours provide people with a refugee’s perspective of the city.

Services and supports

 * Berlin has also utilized an innovative approach to the integration of refugees by providing administrative, educational, employment and health services to refugees. KuB Berlin’s project “Making Forms Understandable” helps refugees and migrants to translate and complete application forms.
 * Humbold-University at Berlin is one of many universities in Germany which offers free lectures and language classes for refugees.
 * Hospitality Berlin offers refugees free professional training for jobs in hotels and restaurants in Berlin, as well as German language classes.
 * In October 2016, the integrative medicine collective BreathBodyMind gave free training for refugees at Berlin shelters in meditation and movement. The goal was to help the refugees deal with trauma and stress.
 * By January 2016, 60 universities in Germany (including three in Berlin) provided tuition-free educations for Syrian nationals.
 * The job portal Migrant Hire, based in at Betahaus in Berlin, was created to connect migrants with employers. As of April 2016, they reported helping around 150 refugees to find steady work.

Crime

 * A study released in January 2018 showed that violent crime had increased about 10% in 2015 and 2016 in Germany. The increase was affiliated with crimes committed by young male refugees. The study shows that a vast majority of these crimes were committed not by Syrian refugees, but by other migrants who had been denied the right to asylum in Germany.
 * In November 2017, at Gorlitzer Park in Berlin, a 23-year-old Syrian man raped a pony.
 * In 2016, 3,533 attacks were reported on refugees and refugee hostels in Germany. In the attacks, 560 refugees were injured, including 43 children. Many of the attacks were attributed to racist violence.

Exploitation

 * It was reported in October 2017 that refugees, including minors, were being lured into prostitution by employees from refugee shelters in Berlin.
 * According to studies conducted in 2016, sexual and gender-based violence against women were common in Berlin’s refugee shelters. Many women reported having suffered from domestic or sexual violence in Berlin shelters.
 * In June 2016, the German government, together with UNICEF, created minimum protection rules in order to protect women and children refugees. The guidelines set up a code of conduct and training for shelter employees in order to address and prevent violence and abuse against women and children.

3/23/2018 Evaluation by MusaMinh

 * Points: 43.5/40
 * Grade: 108.75%

Spelling/Grammar
Few errors "The website givesomethingbacktoberlin.com, used regularly by young people, was created as a platform to connect volunteers to help refugees in Berlin." The url should be written as https://www.givesomethingbacktoberlin.com according to the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

Language
Good encyclopedic tone and diction "Berlin and Berliners have created a number of innovative initiatives, programs, and projects to help integrate refugees through culture and services." This sentence seems clunky to me. "innovative initiatives, programs, and projects" seems redundant and like it could be reduced to just "programs" or something similar since those three things are pretty similar in definition.

Organization
Good paragraphs and headers I would make the Housing section into a written format instead of bullet points. The bullet points seem kind of rigid and throw me off, like with the tiny house project sentences being separated into two distinct bullet points. Actually, after reading through all of it, I would do this for all of the sections. For me, the bullet points make it into a list that is difficult to read.

Coding
Perfect If you do choose to publish this article onto wikipedia, I would add the coding to make significant subjects like the Templhof Airport or notable people into a clickable link to their own wikipedia pages.

Validity
Solid information

Completion
Complete If this is for a new article and not an addition to an existing one (I looked around a bit and couldn't find any similar existing ones other than the general European refugee crisis article) I would add a Lead section to introduce and summarize the content.

Relevance
No irrelevant content