Chiellino’s Fremde situates the migrant as an individual that wishes to be assimilated and at the same time, productive
in the host country. Fremde explores the kind of xenophobia that hinders the blooming of this kind of reality in Germany, where the Turkish are relegated to the fringes, in an effort to show official kindness but personal fear and mistrust. Chiellino’s concept of “
open society” invokes the capacity of societies to reform themselves in the advent of events that require a liberal mind, and perhaps a more open heart to the migrants.