TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stokes,Lauren
TI  - Fear of the family: guest workers and family migration in the Federal Republic of Germany 
T2  - Oxford studies in international history
SN  - 9780197558447 (ebook) :
AV  - HD8458 
U1  - 331.62094309045 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Foreign workers
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Services for
KW  - Foreign workers' families
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1945-1990
N1  - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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
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