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Fear of the family : guest workers and family migration in the Federal Republic of Germany / Lauren Stokes

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Stokes, Lauren
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white).
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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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ISBN
9780197558447 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
Also issued in print: 2022.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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