THE COMPANY MAGAZINE Migration 4/2015 WHO IS COMING HERE? WHO IS HELPING? WHO IS POINTING THE WAY? WHO IS ACTING HUMANELY? WHO IS BUILDING BARRIERS? WHO IS CREATING OPPORTUNITIES? SHANNON JENSEN PHOTOGRAPHED THE SHOES OF REFUGEES ON THE BORDER OF SOUTH SUDAN MIGRANT REFUGEE CHILD Save the Children is on the ground, doing whatever it takes to provide children with food, shelter and medication. © Tracy Manners/Save the Children Tracy © 109 € please donate now! could provide emergency shelter » Online: for a family of five. www.savethechildren.de » Bank transfer: Keyword: Hilfe Kinderflüchtlinge • Bank account: 929 Bank für Sozialwirtschaft IBAN: DE92 1002 0500 0003 2929 12 • BIC: BFSWDE33BER Save the Children works in 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. 1 ⁄ 2015 das magazin von evonik industries 230 x 300mm_Englische Anzeige_Korrektur.indd 1 19.11.15 09:34 3 editorial “Migration has become a normal part of our globalized world” Dear readers, Ellis Island, a small island in New York Harbor, was the site of the largest immigration station in the USA between 1892 and 1954. For more than 12 million people, many of whom came from Germany, Ellis Island was the gateway to the New World. However, for those who were sent back to Europe, it was the “Island of Tears.” The immigrants who were permitted to stay went through a door labeled “Push to New York.” Those who went through left everything behind—their home country, their culture, and their language—in order to start a new and better life. Since that time, migration has become normal in our glo- balized world—a world in which the difference between rich Klaus Engel, Chairman of the Executive Board and poor has become glaring, with migration acting almost of Evonik Industries AG like a natural force to establish equilibrium. One third of the world’s population is currently on the move, relocating from rural areas to cities and crossing borders and entire continents. China, which is now a global economic power, is the best example of this phenomenon. When China opened up to the West 40 years ago, 80 percent of its population lived in the countryside; today more than 50 percent live in cities. Some 120 million people are still migrating through China, without permanent homes or jobs. Migration movements are not a new experience for Europe either. In fact, they have formed the historical foundation of : Evonik our prosperity and our culture. Today hundreds of thousands of refugees are coming to Europe in an attempt to escape the war, terror, and poverty that have destroyed their societies. The countries that are taking them in must now overcome age 3: Photography 3: age major challenges. In view of the recent horrible attacks in | P France, the only way to address these challenges successfully is to remain true to our European values. I sincerely hope that the people who are now coming to us will be able to experience a special “Ellis Island moment” that will enable them to leave their terrible experiences behind and adopt our European values in order to begin a new and better life. Sincerely yours, Cover and back cover: Artist: Jensen Shannon cover: and back Cover 4 ⁄ 2015 the magazine from evonik industries 4 definition Mi gra ti on ORIGIN Latin “migratio” (from “migrare”: wander, depart): departure, exodus masthead Publisher TYPICAL ASSOCIATIONS Migrants, people Evonik Industries AG Rüdiger Oppers Rellinghauser Straße 1–11 45128 Essen, Germany with a migration background Publication Manager Urs Schnabel SYNONYMS Emigration, relocation Consulting and Concept Manfred Bissinger Editor in Chief ANTONYMS Christof Endruweit Stagnation, sedentariness (responsible for editorial content) Editors USAGE Ralf Grauel (Head), Michael Prellberg (Head of Text; MP), Uwe Killing BIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY: The wandering or (UK), Tom Rademacher (TR), Saphir Robert (RO), Erik Wegener (EW) movement of specific groups of people, Managing Editor Inga Borg Picture Editing and plants or animals Layout C3 Creative Code and Content GmbH, Berlin ASTRONOMY: Changes in the course of Translation TransForm GmbH, Cologne planets during the genesis of a new Agency and editorial address BISSINGER[+] GmbH planetary system Medien und Kommunikation An der Alster 1 20099 Hamburg Germany CHEMISTRY: The movement of substances [email protected] Printing Neef+Stumme of low molecular weight to the surfac- premium printing Wittingen es of plastics; a process leading to the Copyright © 2015 by Evonik Industries AG, Essen. Reprinting only with the formation of defects in paints permission of the agency. The content does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the publisher FEDERAL OFFICE FOR MIGRATION AND REFUGEES: Questions about Evonik Magazine Tel.: +49 201 177 – 3152 The spatial relocation of an individual’s e-mail: evonik-magazin@ evonik.com Fax: +49 201 177 – 703152 life center 4 ⁄ 2015 the magazine from evonik industries 5 contents people and values 8 Portraits Far from their homelands, they had to create Graphics: Eva Vasari Eva Graphics: | new homes for themselves—by applying their willpower, ideas, and knowledge. The migrants we present here changed not only their own lives but also those of many others 18 Interview Refugees represent an opportunity for Germany. We should take advantage of it! A talk with Evonik CEO Klaus Engel 24 Essay As the world changes, so does our way of thinking: Why Germany has to become more open—both inside and outside 26 Everyday Heroes Why do some people swing into action to help refugees? And why do others just lounge in front of the TV? An investigation 30 Photo Gallery Photography: Carsten Stormer / Zeitenspiegel, Konrad R.Müller / Agentur Focus Focus R.Müller / Agentur Konrad / Zeitenspiegel, Stormer Carsten Photography: Every day, men, women, and children leave their homelands in search of a future. Some snapshots of these people in flux “Only if I find imitators, and business and if many people become active, society 40 The History of Migration can we survive as a society” From their earliest days, human beings have been on the move. Sheikh Abd al-Nasr lives in the conflict-ridden Syrian city of Their movement has made civilization and progress possible Aleppo. Together with others, he is trying to maintain a semblance of civil order in spite of the war, and thus to lay a foundation for peace. We’ve found people like Abd al-Nasr on various continents; they are the peacemakers in our sometimes troubled world research and technology 54 Report Where others pack up and leave, they stay and rebuild for the future. We visited peacemakers on three continents 60 Class of 2016 Most of the seniors in the advanced math course of a college preparatory school in northern Essen have a migration background. This class is colorful, clever—and high-spirited For some individ- uals, the step from Standards sympathy to action 03 Editorial is perfectly natural. We like to think of 04 Definition / Masthead them as“everyday 06 Facts + Figures: People and Values heroes” 38 Facts + Figures: Business and Society 52 Facts + Figures: Research and Technology 62 Point of Contact Edition Wherever we go, we always take our language with us. An over- Knowledge Poster insert: Language Families view of relationships, alterations, and migrations №6 4 ⁄ 2015 the magazine from evonik industries people and values Facts + Figures 3 questions for Food for thought GROWING Amateur gardeners Amin Ballouz and refugees created “I’ve grown a roof garden with very fond of the a view of colorful vegetables and a Germans” Food for thought colorful city Food for thought COOKING TINKERING Friendship through Practical people the palate: Refugees from all over the I’m a doctor, I find it reveal the secrets of world build new very difficult to hear their native cuisines to products using old people screaming. Germans materials The trauma remains. You were born integration 1 in Lebanon and Do you ever now have a med- 3 experience A taste for something ical practice near xenophobia? Berlin. Do you feel I was once in a shaky new at home? situation—a group of At first, members of the Berlin The region has be- neo-Nazis who didn’t initiative Über den Tellerrand come my home. I had know me threat- Food for thought Food for thought cooked meals together with ref- to flee Beirut when ened me at a gas EXPERIENCING TALKING ugees. This initial approach was I was 16 and I ended station. But nothing Excursions and picnics in Learning German soon transformed into a colorful happened. I’m very the park give everyone and learning Arabic: up in the GDR. I range of activities—a proverbial the opportunity to spend Language tandems first noticed how much appreciated potluck of projects. Copycats a few pleasant hours promote mutual un- fond I had become as a physician in the welcome! together derstanding of Germany and the Uckermark region. I Germans when I find the people here worked in Scotland to be warm and sup- and realized I was portive. Maybe that’s terribly homesick. why I still drive an old East German car. How do you feel Food for thought Food for thought 2 when you see all PERFORMING PLAYING the war refugees? A stage for the The soccer team A lot of things come Amin Ballouz world’s cultures: Ger- practices once a week back to me. I had has been working as a mans and refugees and participates in physician in Schwedt exhibition games and to leave everything since 2010. The sing, dance, and per- back then, and 17 of form plays together tournaments 55-year-old describes the 28 students in his experiences in my class were killed Deutschland draußen by bombs.