Description: The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany This book provides the first English-language history of the postwar labor migration to West Germany. Rita Chin (Author) 9780521690225, Cambridge University Press Paperback / softback, published 31 August 2009 294 pages 22.8 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm, 0.39 kg 'Rita Chin's book makes a significant contribution to the literature on the labor migration and postwar German history. It provides a fruitful model for interdisciplinary scholarship on the guest worker question and migration more generally.' Journal of International Migration and Integration 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. 1. Aras Oren and the 'guest worker' question 2. Minor(ity) literature and the discourse of integration 3. Gender and incommensurable cultural difference 4. Towards a German multiculturalism. Subject Areas: Comparative politics [JPB], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], European history [HBJD]
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BIC Subject Area 1: Comparative politics [JPB]
BIC Subject Area 2: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]
BIC Subject Area 3: European history [HBJD]
Book Title: The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany
ISBN: 0521690226
Publication Date: 31/08/2009
Item Depth: 16
Number of Pages: 294 Pages
Publication Name: The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Economics
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 390 g
Subject Area: Social Work
Author: Rita Chin
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
