Turks in Germany - McDaniel College
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Minorities in Germany
Groups and Guest Workers
Courtney Novotny
E.J. Paterline
Caitlin Bradford
History of Immigration
Guest worker program
From Mediterranean countries
Many from eastern Europe
Ethnic Germans expelled by the Soviets after the
war
Considered citizens under the Basic Law
Seek employment, citizenship, and political
asylum
The Guest Worker
Program
Invited to Germany to rebuild after the
Berlin Wall was built
East German workers lost
Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Yugoslavs and
Turks
By 2002, two thirds of the guest workers
had stayed in the country
Generations of families can be found
Population
7.3 million foreigners
Turks
1,900,000
Yugoslavs 565,000
Italians
350,000
Poles
260,000
Austrians 185,000
9% of the population
Danes, Sorbs, Slavic peoples, and Gypsies
Demographics
• Two thirds live in the north
– Hamburg, Berlin, and the Rhine River area
• Live in urban areas
• Few live in the former GDR
– Few job opportunities
– Those who live there are mainly from the former Soviet bloc countries
Turks
History of Immigration
• Came as guest workers
– Rebuilt Germany after World War II
– Temporary immigrants
• Families came later
• Replaced East German workers after the Wall was built
• Now over 2 million in Germany
Integration
At first, no integration
– Planned to leave
Content with their new lives
Identify themselves as Turkish-Germans, not Turks
Turkish Community in Germany
– Defends the rights and views of Turkish immigrants
AfroGermans
A Little Bit of History
Africans were thought to be lowest human form
No one knows exact time when first AfroGermans were born
– Date back to the end of WWI as a distinct population
19th century - Germany and Africa involved in
trade
Blacks brought from Africa to show what blacks
looked like and to prove Germans had really
been to Africa.
– Eventually to be slaves
During Middle Ages
Africans were portrayed
as evil
With the rise of National
Socialism many AfroGermans were sterilized
During third Reich AfroGermans/Africans
couldn’t get or keep jobs
Citizenship and
passports were taken
away
Two Generations of AfroGermans at Die Weisse Rose.
Loss of Identity
Raised as Germans but not
treated as Germans
Germans have their sense of
nationality from Aryan purity Afro-Germans left out
Ostracized by Germans “mulatto,” “moor,” and
“Negro”
Afro-Germans Today
500,000 Afro-Germans
make up the 80 million
total population in
Germany today
Many of the AfroGermans today are of
American G.I. heritage
Works Cited
“Ethnic Minorities.” Federal Foreign Office. 2000. 30 Nov. 2004 <http://www.tatsachen-ueberdeutschland.de/805.0.html>.
“Ethnic Minorities.” U.S. Library of Congress. 2003. 30 Nov. 2004
<http://countrystudies.us/germany/>.
“German ‘Guest Workers’ Offer Lesson in Immigration Policy.” Germany Online. 16 Jan. 2004. 29
Nov. 2004 <http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/
publications/week/2004/040116/politics3.html>.
Loick, Antonia. “Turks in Germany – A Special Group Within German Society.” Goethe-Institut.
2004. 29 Nov. 2004 <http://www.goethe.de/ kug/ges/rch/thm/en38648.htm>.
Mazón, Patricia, and Reinhild Steingröver. “Not So Plain as Black and White:
Afro-German
Culture and History, 1890-2000.” The University of Rochester Press. 29 Nov. 2004
<http://www.urpress.com/ 80461832.HTM.>.
“Minorities in Germany.” German Info. 2004. 30 Nov. 2004 <http://www.germanyinfo.org/relaunch/info/facts/facts/ questions_en/landandpeople/population7.html>.
Opitz, May, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz, ed. Showing Our Colors: Afro-German
Women Speak Out. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press,1986.
“Turkish Community in Germany.” Türkische Gemeinde in Deutschland. 17 Jan. 2003. 29 Nov. 2004
<http://www.tgd.de/tgd/index.php?newlang=eng>.
Works Cited
“Ethnic Minorities.” Federal Foreign Office. 2000. 30 Nov. 2004 <http://www.tatsachen-ueberdeutschland.de/805.0.html>.
“Ethnic Minorities.” U.S. Library of Congress. 2003. 30 Nov. 2004
<http://countrystudies.us/germany/>.
“German ‘Guest Workers’ Offer Lesson in Immigration Policy.” Germany Online. 16 Jan. 2004. 29
Nov. 2004 <http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/
publications/week/2004/040116/politics3.html>.
Loick, Antonia. “Turks in Germany – A Special Group Within German Society.” Goethe-Institut.
2004. 29 Nov. 2004 <http://www.goethe.de/ kug/ges/rch/thm/en38648.htm>.
Mazón, Patricia, and Reinhild Steingröver. “Not So Plain as Black and White:
Afro-German
Culture and History, 1890-2000.” The University of Rochester Press. 29 Nov. 2004
<http://www.urpress.com/ 80461832.HTM.>.
“Minorities in Germany.” German Info. 2004. 30 Nov. 2004 <http://www.germanyinfo.org/relaunch/info/facts/facts/ questions_en/landandpeople/population7.html>.
Opitz, May, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz, ed. Showing Our Colors: Afro-German
Women Speak Out. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press,1986.
“Turkish Community in Germany.” Türkische Gemeinde in Deutschland. 17 Jan. 2003. 29 Nov. 2004
<http://www.tgd.de/tgd/index.php?newlang=eng>.