HOW AN IMMIGRATION OFFICE IN BAYREUTH COULD DESTROY A FOREIGN HEART

Meng Lu

I spent more than five years of my best times in Göttingen, Köln, and Münster. I probably had the best supervisor and colleagues and thought I love this country almost as much as my homeland. When I just moved to the Netherlands for postdoc, I missed many things in Germany. After my postdoc, I decided to settle in Germany and I thought it feels a bit like going home. However, if someone tells me now he or she loves Germany so much and decide to settle there, I started to feel a bit differently.

I got a position at Bayreuth University in Dec. 2020 and accepted the offer in Feb. 2021. Everyone in Bayreuth has been super kind to me and I met really great professors. But one thing happened that completely changed my feelings to Germany as a whole despite I tried to stay objective. I know the negative…

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