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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"The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the Federal Republic's history and acquainting themselves with longstanding debates over migration and German national identity." -Phil Triadafilopoulos, German Politics and Society
"For decades now, Turks and other "foreigners" have had a ubiquitous presence in German society. And yet, these populations have rarely figured into narratives of postwar Germany as such or conceptions of German identity. Rita Chin, in her superb The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany, seeks to change all" - Jeremy Varon, Central European History
"The book is valuable for those interested in post-1945 German and European history generally, contemporary literature, labor policy, and cultural integration." -Choice
"In this intelligent and well-written book, Rita Chin analyzes the public discourse surrounding the so-called guest worker question in postwar West Germany from the start of the official recruitment program in 1955 to the present." -Frank Biess, Journal of Modern History
"This is a timely and eloquent exploration of what is surely the most debated issue about German society, culture, and identity today: the increasing reality of a multicultural society." -Diethelm Prowe, The Historian
"For decades now, Turks and other "foreigners" have had a ubiquitous presence in German society. And yet, these populations have rarely figured into narratives of postwar Germany as such or conceptions of German identity. Rita Chin, in her superb The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany, seeks to change all" - Jeremy Varon, Central European History
"The book is valuable for those interested in post-1945 German and European history generally, contemporary literature, labor policy, and cultural integration." -Choice
"In this intelligent and well-written book, Rita Chin analyzes the public discourse surrounding the so-called guest worker question in postwar West Germany from the start of the official recruitment program in 1955 to the present." -Frank Biess, Journal of Modern History
"This is a timely and eloquent exploration of what is surely the most debated issue about German society, culture, and identity today: the increasing reality of a multicultural society." -Diethelm Prowe, The Historian
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This book provides the first English-language history of the postwar labor migration to West Germany. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it shows how the West German public struggled to come to terms with millions of foreign guest workers, especially Muslim Turks, who arrived as temporary laborers but quickly became permanent residents.
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die tageszeitung, multicultural questions, die fremde, minority cultural production, guest worker question, incommensurable cultural difference, guest worker literature, foreigner literature, recruitment treaty, foreign fellow citizens, foreigner policy, minority literature, foreigner law, labor recruits, foreigner problem, guest workers, minority artists, minority authors, labor recruitment, migrant women, labor migrants, foreign laborers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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die tageszeitung, multicultural questions, die fremde, minority cultural production, guest worker question, incommensurable cultural difference, guest worker literature, foreigner literature, recruitment treaty, foreign fellow citizens, foreigner policy, minority literature, foreigner law, labor recruits, foreigner problem, guest workers, minority artists, minority authors, labor recruitment, migrant women, labor migrants, foreign laborers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Federal Republic, West German, Chamisso Prize, German Multiculturalism, Die Zeit, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, New York, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Spiegel, Die Brücke, New Left, Munich Institute, Süddeutsche Zeitung, History of Foreign Labor, Irmgard Ackermann, Yüksel Pazarkaya, Frankfurter Rundschau, Chamissos Enkel, Oxford University Press, Aras Oren, Modes of Minority Literature, United States, Statistisches Jahrbuch, Harald Weinrich, The Turkish Turn New!
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