Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 292 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9780197558447
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9780197558447
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9780197558430
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in international history
Content:
Beginning in 1955, West Germany recruited millions of people as guest workers from Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and especially Turkey. This labour force was essential to creating the postwar German economic miracle. Employers fantasized that foreign 'guest workers' would provide labour power in their prime productive years without having to pay for their education, pensions, or medical care. They especially hoped that the workers would leave behind their spouses and children and not encumber the German state or society with the cost of caring for them. As Lauren Stokes argues, the Federal Republic of Germany turned fear of this foreign family into the basis of policymaking, while at the same time implementing policies that inflicted fear in foreign families. Workers did not always prove willing to live their work lives in the FRG and their family lives elsewhere
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-19-755841-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Deutschland
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Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
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Familie
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Soziale Situation
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Geschichte 1955-1989
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780197558416.001.0001
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