This paper looks at refugee children in Germany and is based on an interview-based research project. Areas covered include: how the children learn German and the role of bilingual skills; friendships and contacts at school; the degree of integration in the local neighbourhood; how traumatic experiences are dealt with; the effects of lack of secure residential status; the specific situation of unaccompanied minors. One of the salient features of refugee children's lives is the state of constant uncertainty as regards the future and life planning which this situation entails. It increases the psychological pressure inherent in life stories already characterized by flight, social dislocation and social and cultural uprootedness.

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Germany refugee migrants experience Child immigrant population