News about the refugee and migrant crisis dominate German media, today there have been protests against Chancellor Merkel’s Migrant policy in Munich. Meanwhile, she is visiting Turkey today (October 18), promising money and agreeing on accelerating the opening of negotiation chapters...

But there is some good news regarding the integration of the refugees and migrants in Germany (the German public’s greatest concern regarding the crisis is the integration of refugees into German society, and them accepting German “Leitkultur”) which also made the media today.

Sponsored by charitable organisations, a dormitory where students and refugees are living together has opened in Munich Obersending. 61 refugee and 42 students live together at the dormitory. Most of the refugees have come to Germany over a year ago, and are now able to study here. All of the young refugees are males. The quoted reason that the same hasn’t been done with female refugees is fear of re-traumatising them if they would have to live in mixed communities (many of them have experienced sexual violence).