published by ZEIT ONLINE, January 2, 2018 >> (text, translation, and photos: CF)
The Bay Area is booming, but misery is spreading in San Francisco’s hinterland. A young mayor is now experimenting with a radical idea: a basic income.
Translation of my German-language radio documentary (19mn), broadcast by Deutschlandfunk (German public radio) on Nov 23, 2021 >>
Canada opened its borders to people of all nationalities back in the 1960s, provided they bring the right qualifications. The German government discusses whether this could be a model for them. But Canada’s often idealized immigration system is classist and encourages exploitation, critics say.
published by Uniglobale Magazine, Germany, 4/2016; text, photos, and translation: CF >>
Software engineers from all over the world rave about working in the San Francisco Bay Area. But if their non-techie partners follow them, they usually have a hard time professionally – and might well end up as ice cream vendors with Ph.D.s.
published by Letter, the magazine of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD >> (and as a short version on the DAAD website >>)
When Professor Pinelopi „Penny“ Goldberg applied for the position of chief economist at the World Bank in 2018, it was not her first application to the bank. Thirty years before she had applied for an internship, but was rejected. She took it as a challenge, which brought her from Freiburg to Yale and finally to Washington D.C. nonetheless.
published in German by ZEIT ONLINE on February 28, 2017 >>
Harvest workers, nannies, craftspeople: Eleven million people live in the US without papers, nothing goes without them. Trump wants to deport them anyway. A life full of fear.
Final report of my research on the situation of undocumented migrants in Arizona and California, supported by the American Council on Germany’s McCloy Fellowship in Journalism