Fremdenfeindlichkeit im Alter. Implikationen für eine sozialraumorientierte interkulturelle Geragogik

With increasing age, xenophobic and pejorative attitudes of people with a migration background and other cultures grow. Both adult education in older age and social work are hence faced with new challenges. On the basis of a statistic inventory on hostility of elderly people, different forms and specifications and also dimensions of discrimination are systematized by means of theory constructions. Enabling to focus on social community approaches, e.g. the concept of Habitus, as suggested by Bourdieu, is particularly relevant in this context. Finally, goals and didactic orientations at a socio-spacial and intercultural social work with elderly people will be formulated which refer to the single subject as well as to the arrangement of relationships and its placing in social discourses.