GRMN3011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gastarbeiter, Wirtschaftswunder, Berlin Wall

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: German Studies
• Course: GRMN3011
• Professor: Cat Moir

Document Summary

Now, the west was forced to find migrant labourers from elsewhere became known as. Gastarbeiter who faced discrimination based on religious and cultural differences: gdr also was forced to find new migrant labourers, resulting in an intake of migrants from (mostly) socialist countries. Racism / hostility to foreigners just as present in the east as in the. Resulted in migrant workers wanting to bring in their children into. Germany to benefit from social security payments, leading to concerns about increased pressure on infrastructure, etc: grundgesetz was very flexible in recognizing official asylum and thus lacked a clear immigration policy. Late 1970s: far-right groups blamed migrants for unemployment, argued that national. Xenophobic feelings not confined to these groups other educated" groups also exhibited xenophobia, e. g. heidelberg manifesto signatories were university professors who feared dilution of racial german heritage from a biological perspective. Ostdeutschland: american civil rights movement also motivated gdr citizens in fight against racism.