Migration Policies and “Guest Worker” Programs in the Federal Republic of Germany: Regulations, Stakeholders, and Stubbornness
The lecture series will focus on labor migration to Germany.
By combining historical and social science research approaches, we invite you to view migration not only as a subject of political regulation, but as a multifaceted social process that has had a lasting impact on Germany’s past and present.
The speakers will be colleagues from Germany and abroad who specialize in this topic.
Presentations
Oct. 20: Noyan Dinçkal/Yasemin Niephaus (Siegen): Introduction –
Migration Regimes and “Guest Work”
Oct. 27: Christoph Rass (Osnabrück): From “Gastarbeiter” to “guest worker.” Origins, careers, and the global present of a figure in migration
Nov. 3: Vera Tönsfeldt (Cologne): Migration in Memory. Who Collects, Who
tells the story, and who remains visible?
Nov. 10: Jennifer Miller (Edwardsville): Her Fight Is Your Fight: Labor Struggles and “Guest Worker” Solidarity in 1970s West Germany (Online)
Nov. 24: Yesim Erim (Erlangen-Nuremberg): Mental Health Challenges Faced by Migrant Workers and the Health Care System’s Responses Amid Social Change (Online)
Dec. 1: Oliver Razum (Bielefeld): Individual Life Courses and Institutional Failures: Determinants of Migrants’ Health
Dec. 8: Jessica Kuhlmann (Siegen): Migration and Political Participation: The
role of local integration councils
Dec. 15: Elisabeth Kimmerle (Potsdam): Political Negotiations of the Private Sphere.
Transnational Perspectives on Migration, Gender, and Social Movements (1961–1989)
Jan. 12: Lale Yıldırım (Kiel): Identity and History in a Society of Migration
Jan. 19: Bettina Wagener (Siegen): Between Idealization and Rejection.
Pregnancy Among Migrant Workers, 1960–1990
Jan. 26: Maria Alexopoulou (Berlin): “Guest Worker” and Racism. A History of Ignorance Revisited
Feb. 2: Noyan Dinçkal/Yasemin Niephaus (Siegen): Conclusion
