Dokument #1226893
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Sources currently available to the IRBDC
indicate that ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union have the right to nationality and residence in Germany
(Reuters 4 Mar. 1992; U.S. Committee for Refugees 1991, 70; German
Information Centre 1991, 5; The Economist 19 Oct. 1991, 58;
Helsinki Watch Sept. 1991, 15). However, according to the World
Refugee Survey 1991,
"as of July 1 [1991], Ausseidler [ethnic Germans from other
countries] were no longer accepted automatically at the border, and
were required to present a document issued by the German embassy in
the country in which they had been living attesting to their German
descent" (1991, 70).
The attached Reuters report from 4 March
1992 corroborates this information and provides additional details.
A September 1991 Helsinki Watch report also refers to recent
impediments to emigration of Soviet Germans and indicates that "it
is now the policy of the German government to encourage Soviet
Germans to remain in the USSR" (Sept. 1991, 11, 15).
Please see the attached articles for
further information on this topic. In addition, please refer to
Responses to Information Request DEU9223 of 12 August 1991 and
DEU2082 of September 1989, available in the RefInfo database, for
further information related to this topic including comments from
officials of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
There is no further information currently
available to the IRBDC on this topic.
The Christian Science Monitor
[Boston]. 19 November 1991. Joyce M. Mushaben. "Germany's
Immigrants." (NEXIS)
The Economist [New York]. 19
October 1991. "Germany's Immigrants: No Solution," p. 58.
German Information Centre. 1991.
Focus On...Foreigners in Germany: Guest Workers, Asylum Seekers,
Refugees and Ethnic Germans. New York: German Information
Centre.
Helsinki Watch. September 1991.
"Punished Peoples" of the Soviet Union: The Continuing Legacy of
Stalin's Deportations. New York: Human Rights Watch.
Reuters. 4 March 1992. BC Cycle. Rolf
Soderlind. "Ethnic Germans in the Fatherland - A Question of
Guilt." (NEXIS)
U.S. Committee for Refugees. 1991.
World Refugee Survey 1991. Washington, D.C.: American
Council for Nationalities Service.
The Christian Science Monitor [Boston].
19 November 1991. Joyce M. Mushaben. "Germany's Immigrants."
(NEXIS)
German Information Centre. IX 1991.
Focus On...Foreigners in Germany: Guest Workers, Asylum Seekers,
Refugees and Ethnic Germans. New York: German Information
Centre, pp. 3, 5, 6.
Helsinki Watch. September 1991.
"Punished Peoples" of the Soviet Union: The Continuing Legacy of
Stalin's Deportations. New York: Human Rights Watch, pp. 11,
15.
Reuters. 4 March 1992. BC Cycle. Rolf
Soderlind. "Ethnic Germans in the Fatherland - A Question of
Guilt." (NEXIS) U.S. Committee for Refugees. 1991. World Refugee
Survey 1991. Washington, D.C.: American Council for
Nationalities Service, pp. 70, 71.