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219 Worst Case and Best Practice in European and North American Media Integration: What Can We Learn from One Another? Round Table Discussion Participants Prof. Dr. Heinz Bonfadelli (University of Zürich) Prof. Dr. Rainer Geißler (Siegen University) Prof. Dr. Leen d’Haenens (Radbouw University Nijmegen) Souley Hassane (University of Poitiers) Dr. Petra Herczeg (University of Vienna) Prof. Dr. Horst Pöttker (University of Dortmund) Prof. Dr. Kenneth Starck (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates) Chair Augie Fleras (University of Waterloo, Canada) Augie Fleras Good afternoon to everyone and welcome to this final session that will be a round- table colloquium. The theme of the conference is to see what media and journalists need to do in order to make minorities and migrants feel at home. I think, that we use that terminology is quite interesting, because it goes beyond abstractions like just integration or inclusion, but brings it really down to the fundamental issue – of making migrants feel at home – in terms of reaching out, in terms of inviting in, and in terms of inquiring: where are experiences of discriminatory barriers and what could be done to modify or eliminate these barriers? What kind of indicators do we have with feeling at home? We like to think that feeling at home means that your sense of belonging is as much to your country as to the one that you left behind; that your sense of identity is as great as the one that you left behind. So the notion of indicators – what constitutes this concept of integration in general and feeling at home more specifically? – is an important one.