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The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany

The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany

Chin, Rita

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LaborGerman HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0521690226
ISBN13: 9780521690225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 31 2009
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This book provides the first English-language history of the postwar labor migration to West Germany. Drawing on government bulletins, statements by political leaders, parliamentary arguments, industry newsletters, social welfare studies, press coverage, and the cultural production of immigrant artists and intellectuals, Rita Chin offers an account of West German public debate about guest workers. She traces the historical and ideological shifts around the meanings of the labor migration, moving from the concept of guest workers as a temporary labor supplement in the 1950s and 1960s to early ideas about multiculturalism by the end of the 1980s. She argues that the efforts to come to terms with the permanent residence of guest workers, especially Muslim Turks, forced a major rethinking of German identity, culture, and nation. What began as a policy initiative to fuel the economic miracle ultimately became a much broader discussion about the parameters of a specifically German brand of multiculturalism.

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