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Roberto Sala
From “Foreign Workers” to “Guest Workers”
Keywords: Italienische Fremdarbeiter, Italienische Gastarbeiter in Deutschland, Arbeitskräfteanwerbung in der EWG
Shaped by long-term developments in migration policy on the European level, the recruitment process of Italian workers for the German economy came to being through the deployment of Italian workers during the Third Reich and was taken up again in the Federal Republic of Germany by the German-Italian treaty of 1955. The practice of recruiting Italian migrants at the end of the 1950s resulted in a centralised administration of the migration of labour, which shaped immigration to West Germany from other Mediterranean countries during the 1960s. After 1962 however, the recruitment failed in Italy of all places, due to the liberalisation of the labour market in the European Economic Community, which was incompatible with the strict state regimentation of immigration practised by the Federal Republic.
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag
Print ISSN: 0042-5702
Volume: 55, 01/2007
Pages: 93 - 120