Become a Berliner With Javi

02/23/19 • 43 min

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Hosts Bridget & Aleks interview Javi, a Berliner of Mexican origin who has been on a student visa for almost a decade and is looking forward to applying for citizenship soon. Javi shares cautionary tales of the Kirchensteuer and housing missteps in his early days. Info for Javi's visa type is available on the Berlin website, here: https://service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/305244/en/ Transcript of this episode will be on our website shortly: berlinpodcast.com Please let us know what you thought of the episode by joining our community group on Facebook & Twitter @BerlinPodcast! You can find the music of our talented DJ-in-residence, Antti Simola, on his SoundCloud: @antti-simola

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Who are you calling an expat?

This minisode is a part of the interview with Zozan, a Kurdish/Turkish sociology student. In it, hosts Bridget and Aleks and interviewee Zozan stray from the main topic of German-Turkish bureaucratic conundrums to attempt a clarification of some recurring labels like “migrant” ”immigrant” and “expat” and differences in their German and English usage. The full article on Expats by Jacinta Nandi can be found here: https://www.thelocal.de/20140617/are-you-an-expat-or-immigrant-in-germany Transcript of this episode will be on our website shortly: https://berlinpodcast.com Please let us know what you thought of the episode by joining our community group on Facebook @BerlinPodcast or tweet at us @BerlinPodcast! You can find the music of our talented DJ-in-residence, Antti Simola, on his SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/antti-simola

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