How much do the cultural practices of immigrants change the cultural landscape of their new city?

       

         A lot of tourists have been visiting Salzburg for many years but they not only one who wants to visit this fancy place. Each year the majority of immigrants increase because of their push and pull factors. Even right now (Refugees). In this blog we are going to talk about the migration and its culture in Salzburg. Our AIS-Expedition will show the most common and well-known places in Salzburg which field with immigrants and their business properties. So, lets start our journey around the Salzburg.


         How you can see on this map that is shown below, we used this path from Landeskrankenhaus to Hauptbahnhof and all these dots on the map a direct plays that we visited and about which we are going to talk about.

#1Traditional fast-food

        On our expedition, first of all, we met with different types of specific food from different countries, such as, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey, etc. Everything that happens in Salzburg we can mark as a moment of Migration transition and all immigrants that work in these distribution-shops are guest workers who work for money and afterwards send them to their families from the boarder. Once again, in these food(for us its fast-food) that they sell to us are part of their traditional food which they usually eat at home. Even if they are immigrants, food is still got a good favor and is so tasty and delicious. Here are some examples of these fast-food shops:

#2 Traditional simple-food

       Then we found a good shop with different candies and nuts from Iraq and seller of this shop(who was immigrant) aloud us to take some photos hopefully and even of him.(Watch pictures below) So, from our opinion, the point of this shop is not just to sell food for people of same tradition but also to sell for common people in a way of familiarizing people with a new culture. We even asked seller the question: "How did you get here?" He told us:" My friends and family were here before me, so I decided also to come here and get job". It sounds familiar? Doesn't it? How we can know from our study of AP Geography that this type of migration called; "Chain migration".

#3 Shops with traditional cloth

        Near to the previous shop we found a shop that really took our attention. How you already got from the name of this paragraph, this shop includes in itself different variations of Islam cloth. Shop workers were guys who were part of international migration as others. This place generally plays a major role in migrant citizens life because its almost an only place where they can buy cloth for them. Also tourists can buy here if they interested in it. If I was a tourist I would even buy it just for fun. Also this shop can play a role of decoration of the town.

#4 Traditional Jewelry

         In 5 minutes from the previous shop we found another one but it differ from previous. This shop sells traditional jewelry. We could not even think about this type of shop that we can find in Salzburg, so we were so excited. This shop gives opportunities and possibilities for a female part of immigrants, they also want to be fancy as common people in this city. Unfortunately, we found out that one of the sellers was an unauthorized immigrant because he enters the country without proper documents. How did we find out? When we started to ask seller questions about the shop, he didn't understand us and gave us his passport where Max Wriense found out that its made in incorrect way. Once again, this shop can provide immigrants with jewelry and even sell something for common citizens and get them familiar with their culture.

#5 Communicational possibilities of immigrants 

         Next step was to find out how all of these immigrants communicate with their families which live abroad of the country. It was easy to find out because in 15 minutes we found a special property which sells possibilities of communicating immigrants through the fastest way that they have: internet, special phones and even writing letters. In this places usually work people whom we call Brain Drain people because you need to be smart enough to work there. To prove it, we began a conversation with a worker and he was really smart enough and knew a fluent German and English.

       To conclude our topic we will answer on main question of this expedition: "How much do the cultural practices of immigrants change the cultural landscape of their new city?" Cultural practices of immigrants change entirely the cultural landscape of city, in our example is Salzburg. All these shops that surround us change everything, so we can even lose a point of where we are know. Most often, we even prefer their food because it tastes much better than Austrian food or cloth which someone can prefer more than common. All these industries change the majority of people in Salzburg, I mean that it can be even like : 70% of Salzburg are immigrants and 30% another are natives.     

Here are some another pictures from the expedition that might interest you!