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Gastarbeiter (German for 'guest worker'; pronounced [ˈɡastˌʔaʁbaɪtɐ] ⓘ; both singular and plural) are foreign or migrant workers, particularly those who had moved to West Germany between 1955 and 1973, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker program (Gastarbeiterprogramm). As a result, guestworkers are generally considered ...
Emerging in the 1960s, Gastarbeiterdeutsch was mainly spoken by the first generation of foreign workers from Southern Europe and North Africa, and later Turkey, who immigrated to Germany. They were called ‘Gastarbeiter’ (guest workers). Guest workers were to be a transitory workforce with short-term working agreements to meet the demand of ...
Italian emigrants in Germany (called "Gastarbeiter"), receiving instruction in 1962 Italian workers in Cologne in 1962 With Germany's post- World War II economic boom ( Wirtschaftswunder ), the country signed a number of immigration treaties with other mostly European nations starting in 1955 with Italy, which allowed immigrants to move to ...
In the 19th century it was used to describe areas of Germany in a need of eating potatoes like "potatosaxons". Gastarbeiter used the term "potatoeater" for Germans, while "spaghettieater" meant migrant Italians and "kebabeaters" Turks. Today the term is often also used ironically by members of the described group for themselves.
Gastarbeiter (historical German guest-worker program) Turks in Germany; Guest worker program (a proposed foreign-worker program in the U.S.) Immigration; Labor shortage; Lavoie v. Canada (a Canadian Supreme Court case ruling on foreign worker status) Smart contract: can be used for temporary employment contracts [30] [31] Mercenary; Metic
After the Second World War, Germany did not have enough workers so laborers from other European states were invited to work in Germany. This invitation ended in 1973 and these workers were known as Gastarbeiter. 1 March has become a symbolic day for transnational migrants' strike.
A math whiz from Germany, Bauckholt, then 26, was making more than a half-million dollars at a New York City trading firm and juggling a bustling social calendar. Her apartment in Jersey City, New ...
Decision to recognize East Germany pushed West Germany to apply the Hallstein Doctrine for the first time in history, limiting relations almost exclusively to the economics field for eleven years (until 1968) until the initiation of Ostpolitik. [2] [3] At the time, Yugoslav citizens were one of the largest groups of Gastarbeiter.