Publikationen
Empowering Youth in Muslim Youth Work in Germany
Langner, Joachim/Jungmann, Annika
Empowering Youth in Muslim Youth Work in Germany.
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 16.09.2025
The presentation examines how Muslim youth work in Germany deals with the complex tensions between individuals and society in the (post-)migrant society. Based on the German Youth Institute’s qualitative study “(Social) Pedagogical Practice of Muslim Actors and Their Role in the Political Socialization of Young People” (MusAk), interviews with youth workers from institutions that subscribe to an Muslim identity and address Muslim youth are examined using the documentary method. The results show that the youth workers draw on personal experience from their biographies to come to an understanding of what it means to grow up as a Muslim in Germany, that percieves anti-Muslim racism as a central framework condition for their youth work, but leading to different perspectives and approaches to action: on the one hand, an individualizing orientation that focuses on the young people's living conditions, and on the other hand, a collectivizing orientation that focuses on coping with societal exclusion and the striving for recognition from dominant society.
Empowering Youth in Muslim Youth Work in Germany.
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 16.09.2025
The presentation examines how Muslim youth work in Germany deals with the complex tensions between individuals and society in the (post-)migrant society. Based on the German Youth Institute’s qualitative study “(Social) Pedagogical Practice of Muslim Actors and Their Role in the Political Socialization of Young People” (MusAk), interviews with youth workers from institutions that subscribe to an Muslim identity and address Muslim youth are examined using the documentary method. The results show that the youth workers draw on personal experience from their biographies to come to an understanding of what it means to grow up as a Muslim in Germany, that percieves anti-Muslim racism as a central framework condition for their youth work, but leading to different perspectives and approaches to action: on the one hand, an individualizing orientation that focuses on the young people's living conditions, and on the other hand, a collectivizing orientation that focuses on coping with societal exclusion and the striving for recognition from dominant society.