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Ms. Tesfaiesus, 47, was born in what is now Eritrea and arrived in West Germany as a child in the 1980s at a time when the country was still divided. In the more than three decades since, Germany has undergone an enormous transformation: Unification and the arrival of millions of new residents as the country became the world’s second-largest destination for migrants after the United States.

During that period of rapid change, Germany also made it easier for foreign-born residents and their German-born children to become citizens, but obstacles remain.

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Ms. Tesfaiesus said she also wants to use her national profile to show people who, like her, do not “look German,” that they have a place in the country’s society, and politics.

www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/world/europe/germany-black-woman-bundestag.html