Vietnamese people in Germany
The Vietnamese in Germany (also German Vietnamese, vietnam. Nguoi Việt Đức Tai ) are one of the numerically smaller immigrant groups in the Federal Republic.
Overview
End of 2009, lived nearly 85,000 Vietnamese nationals in Germany. In addition, the numbers do not exactly known groups who have taken German citizenship and those who illegally residing in Germany. Overall, it is assumed that about 100,000 to 125,000 people of Vietnamese descent in Germany. The number of Vietnamese who have taken German citizenship, is estimated at about 40,000. This means that the Vietnamese before the Chinese in Germany, the largest East Asian life group in the Federal Republic. A small part of the Vietnamese community in Germany belongs to Hoa, the Chinese minority in Vietnam.
The Vietnamese community is also not isolated, but is inter alia strongly connected by internal European migration with the Vietnamese in the Czech Republic and Poland. The reason for this is also the German repatriation policy in the nineties, under which many Vietnamese moved to the Czech Republic and Poland.
History
Larger numbers of Vietnamese immigrants came only from the 1970s into the territory of the present Federal Republic of Germany, after the federal government had agreed to after the first so-called Indochinese refugee conference of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR ) in July 1979, Vietnamese refugees (including many boat people ) record. The quota for the refugees was gradually increased to around 38,000 people. Just a few hundred Vietnamese children (mostly orphans ) were adopted by the West German families.
Vietnamese were also one of the few immigrant communities who lived in the German Democratic Republic. Already in the 1950s, students were invited from North Vietnam to the GDR from 1973, the cooperation between the two countries was further expanded and about 10,000 Vietnamese, mostly members of the social upper classes were trained in East Germany. After the end of the Vietnam War, the reunification of North and South Vietnam and the founding of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, finally, people from all over Vietnam were invited to the GDR, which was regarded as particularly progressive communist state.
By 1989, more than 100,000 Vietnamese had finally permanently or temporarily studied, lived or worked, especially in East Berlin, Rostock, Erfurt, Jena in East Germany, Karl- Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz ), Leipzig and Dresden. Many of them had been recruited as contract workers from the " socialist brother country " Vietnam. By 1989, the number of permanent residents in East Germany Vietnamese rose to almost 60,000. Up to this point, 30000-40000 people from Vietnam who immigrated to West Germany also.
After German reunification, but unemployment rose in the East German federal states rapidly, which many Vietnamese contract workers were affected. To date, there is discrimination, culminating including in the incidents of Rostock light Hagen. The federal government offered the then living in East Germany to Vietnamese to take over the cost of a return trip to their home, yet the majority of them decided to stay. Even after reunification, immigration from Vietnam continued to Germany.
Today, the Vietnamese are often described as one of the most integrated immigrant groups in Germany, but this is difficult verifiable. For years, Vietnam is also one of the ten countries with the highest number of asylum seekers in Germany. The majority of German Vietnamese now pleads for Mahayana Buddhism, but there are also small Christian- Catholic and atheistic or agnostic minorities. For the Vietnamese Buddhists in Germany the Viên GIAC was in 1991 in Hanover Pagoda, one of the largest pagodas in Europe, opened.
Larger Vietnamese communities are found today especially in Rostock, Leipzig, Dresden, Erfurt, Berlin, Munich and Hanover.
Vietnamese in Berlin
People from the ethnic group of the Vietnamese are the largest East Asian community in Berlin, making 1.16 % of the inhabitants of the city. Areas with a significant proportion of the population are mainly in the former East Berlin, the Lichtenberg district, where at least 3,800 people of Vietnamese origin live.
In total there are 12,814 of them born in Vietnam and the Vietnamese have citizenship, 20,000 have German citizenship or were born in Berlin; There are also an unknown number of illegal immigrants, often from rural areas. The total number is 40,000 ( 1.16% of the total population ).
Famous people of Vietnamese descent in Germany
- Chi Le, Actress
- Kien Nghi Ha, author and political analyst
- Christopher Nguyen, footballer
- Marcel Nguyen, Art Turner
- Jenny -Mai Nuyen, fantasy author
- Minh - Khai Phan - Thi, actress, presenter and filmmaker
- Philipp Rösler, former Economy Minister and Vice-Chancellor
- Hàn Thế Thành, computer
- Pham Thi Hoai, author
- Đằng Ngọc Long musicians