DOMiD, the Documentation Centre and Museum about the Migration in Germany, is a charitable association which applies itself to historical questions of the migration in Germany and her results. This happens in particular by the following activities:
The association is politically independent and ideological neutral. To interested people the membership is open. The cooperation in the association is welcome. The association finances itself from membership fees, contributions, project means of public and private bearers as well as by sponsor's money.
1. Meeting of the members
The meeting of the members is the highest organ of the association. It decides in
all association problems which are not to be procured by the board of directors or
another in the statute certain
organ. The meeting of the members takes place at least once a year.
2. Board of directors
The board of directors is chosen by the meeting of the members. It exists of seven
board members who choose the 3-headed speaker circle again from their middle. The
duties of the single board members are regulated in an agenda. The term of office
of the board of directors amounts two years.
On the last extraordinary meeting of the members on the 28th of March, 2010 Murad
Bayraktar, Mario de Matteis, Saadettin Tüzün, Ahmet Sezer, Norbert
Brünen, Sabahattin Tüzün and Klaus Köster were chosen as board
of directors. Speakers of the board of directors are Murad Bayraktar, Saadettin
Tüzün and Norbert Brünen.
3. Auditors
The auditors and auditor's examiners are chosen by the meeting of the members. They
check the cash guidance and report back to the meeting of the members.
4. Professional advisory board
The essential job of the professional advisory board is to discuss the association
in his content development. The approved scientists from the whole of Germany who
cover the research spectrum of the association in this subject belong to the
professional advisory board internationally. The members of the professional
advisory board are appointed by the board of directors indefinitely.
List of the professional advisory board
members, state: May 2009 
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DOMiD Documentation Centre and Museum about the Migration in Germany was founded in 1990 as a self-organization of Turkish migrants under the name "DOMiT Documentation Centre and Museum about the Migration from Turkey." Moreover occasion was the notice that the history of the immigrants received special attention neither in the historical science nor in museums or archives, although the German society as a result of the recruitment and the lasting establishment of working migrants had changed since the 1950s radically.
To preserve the historical inheritance of the immigrants for future generations, an archive which encloses today an all over the country unique collection in socially, every day and cultural-historical reports to the history of the immigration to Germany was founded. DOMiT became known by a bigger public due to the exhibition "Strange Homeland. A history of the immigration from Turkey" which was shown in 1998 in the Ruhrland Museum Essen. Other exhibitions and internet projects on the migration to Germany followed.
From 2002 to 2006 DOMiT realized in cooperation with the Art Association Cologne, the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University Frankfurt and the Institute for Theory of Desing and Art at the College for Design and Art Zurich the "Project Migration". Initiated and promoted by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the project flowed into a big social-historical and artistic exhibition which was shown in 2005/2006 in four locations in Cologne. Within the scope of the "Project Migration" the social-historical and cultural-historical collection of the association was extended by materials to the migration from Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Tunisia, ex-Yugoslavia, South Korea, Vietnam, Mosambique and Angola. This enlargement led to a name change: On account of the already achieved name recognition the abbreviation DOMiT was maintained; it stands since 2005 for "Documentation Centre and Museum about the Migration in Germany. An expansion of the collection spectrum on other migration forms and origin countries is aimed for the future.
DOMiDs long-term aim is to establish a migration museum as a centre of the history, art and culture of the migration in Germany. Such a centre should serve to make the historical memory of the migration society visible and learnable. To mobilise support for this concern, several conferences were organised in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Network Migration in Europe. In October, 2002 an initiative was established in Cologne (press release, PDF-data / data size 481 KB). In the following year there originated from it the association "Migration Museum in Germany in which representatives of different migrant-communities and scientists united.
In June, 2007 DOMiT has merged with the association "Migration Museum in Germany " The new association DOMiD Documentation Centre and Museum about the Migration in Germany is not any more a self-organization of Turkish migrants, but brings together migrants of different origin and Germans without migration background. The association statute intends that the composition of the association organs (board of directors, speaker's circle, scientific advisory board, management and meeting of the members) represents the variety of the immigration to Germany appropriately - in particular by the active participation of people, the different immigrant-communities are descended and/or have immigrated themselves. To the support of the association work a conveyor association was founded.