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This book provides the first Englishlanguage history of the postwar labormigration to West Germany. Drawing on government bulletins statements bypolitical leaders parliamentary arguments industry newsletters socialwelfare studies press coverage and the cultural production of immigrantartists and intellectuals Rita Chin offers an account of West German publicdebate about guest workers. She traces the historical and ideological shiftsaround the meanings of the labor migration moving from the concept of guestworkers as a temporary labor supplement in the 1950s and 1960s to early ideasabout multiculturalism by the end of the 1980s. She argues that the effortsto come to terms with the permanent residence of guest workers especiallyMuslim Turks forced a major rethinking of German identity culture andnation. What began as a policy initiative to fuel the economic miracleultimately became a much broader discussion about the parameters of aspecifically German brand of multiculturalism. «
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