The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany

by Rita Chin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521870003
• ISBN13: 9780521870009
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"