{"id":1372,"date":"2026-03-05T12:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:31:14","slug":"fear-power-politics-and-migration-whatever-happened-to-germanys-welcome-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/fear-power-politics-and-migration-whatever-happened-to-germanys-welcome-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear, power politics and migration: whatever happened to Germany\u2019s \u2018welcome culture\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Germany debates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/14195\/listen-friedrich-merz-under-fire-over-dangerous-migration-remarks\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14195\">new asylum restrictions<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/7653\/why-the-csu-successfully-stopped-imitating-the-afd\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7653\">far-right parties gain ground<\/a>, migration has become a symbol of broader fears about an unstable world.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, Germany symbolised Europe\u2019s \u2018Willkommenskultur\u2019 [Welcome Culture].<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s decision to open borders to refugees in 2015 was framed as a moral and historical responsibility. Public discourse centred on solidarity, integration and humanitarian duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Germany debates\u00a0new asylum restrictions\u00a0and\u00a0far-right parties gain ground, migration has become a symbol of broader fears about an unstable world. Ten years ago, Germany symbolised Europe\u2019s \u2018Willkommenskultur\u2019 [Welcome Culture]. Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s decision to open borders to refugees in 2015 was framed as a moral and historical responsibility. Public discourse centred on solidarity, integration and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"journalist":[117],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-by-our-journalists","journalist-shaimaa-samy","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"journalist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenjournalists.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journalist?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}