Fear of the family : guest workers and family migration in the Federal Republic of Germany /
Stokes, Lauren,
Fear of the family : guest workers and family migration in the Federal Republic of Germany / Lauren Stokes. - 1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). - Oxford studies in international history Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford studies in international history. Oxford scholarship online. .
Also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Specialized.
9780197558447 (ebook) : No price
Foreign workers--History--Germany--20th century.
Foreign workers--Services for--Germany.
Foreign workers' families--History--Germany--20th century.
Foreign workers--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
Germany--Economic conditions--1945-1990.
HD8458
331.62094309045
Fear of the family : guest workers and family migration in the Federal Republic of Germany / Lauren Stokes. - 1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). - Oxford studies in international history Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford studies in international history. Oxford scholarship online. .
Also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Specialized.
9780197558447 (ebook) : No price
Foreign workers--History--Germany--20th century.
Foreign workers--Services for--Germany.
Foreign workers' families--History--Germany--20th century.
Foreign workers--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
Germany--Economic conditions--1945-1990.
HD8458
331.62094309045