Organizational support from Diakonie and Caritas to irregular migrants in Berlin, Germany

Abstract

My thesis examines how certain faith-based or non-governmental organizations support irregular migrants (hereafter, IM) in Berlin, Germany. I have chosen this particular topic because I am curious to learn the surviving mechanisms of the IM in situation when they have no official sources of assistance. Besides their personal or ethnic networks, only some organizations provide assistance to the IM. In this regard I was provoked by the discrepancy between state and NGO approach: state does not support the IM but encourages organizations to engage in activities helping them.