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Imagining a German Multiculturalism: Aras Oren and the Contested Meanings of the "Guest Worker," 1955-1980

Imagining a German Multiculturalism: Aras Oren and the Contested Meanings of the "Guest Worker,"... Page 44 Imagining a German Multiculturalism: Aras Ören and the Contested Meanings of the “Guest Worker,” 1955–1980 Rita C.-K. Chin Over the past fifteen years, numerous economic, political, and literary studies of the so-called Gastarbeiter (guest worker) question have provided a much fuller and more meaningful portrait of the Federal Republic of Germany’s labor recruitment program following World War II. Yet these various modes of scholarship have remained largely insulated from one another, divided by their respective disciplinary concerns. Social scientists have focused on questions of economic advantage, policy making, and demographic change, but they have tended to ignore the broader cultural impact and the publicly debated meanings of the recruitment.1 Conversely, literary scholars have often presented the government treaties as static political precursors to the emergence of an evolving cultural production by minorities: “official” policy serves as historical prologue, followed by a series of counterhegemonic literary maneuvers.2 At this point, it seems worth examining these transnational histories in tandem, especially in the context of the early 1970s, a juncture that has figured prominently in the previous scholarship. Social scientists have highlighted 1973 as the official endpoint of recruitment, a major change in the government’s labor policy with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Radical History Review Duke University Press

Imagining a German Multiculturalism: Aras Oren and the Contested Meanings of the "Guest Worker," 1955-1980

Chin, Rita C.-K.
Radical History Review , Volume 2002 (83) – Apr 1, 2002
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc.
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0163-6545
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10.1215/01636545-2002-83-44
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Page 44 Imagining a German Multiculturalism: Aras Ören and the Contested Meanings of the “Guest Worker,” 1955–1980 Rita C.-K. Chin Over the past fifteen years, numerous economic, political, and literary studies of the so-called Gastarbeiter (guest worker) question have provided a much fuller and more meaningful portrait of the Federal Republic of Germany’s labor recruitment program following World War II. Yet these various modes of scholarship have remained largely insulated from one another, divided by their respective disciplinary concerns. Social scientists have focused on questions of economic advantage, policy making, and demographic change, but they have tended to ignore the broader cultural impact and the publicly debated meanings of the recruitment.1 Conversely, literary scholars have often presented the government treaties as static political precursors to the emergence of an evolving cultural production by minorities: “official” policy serves as historical prologue, followed by a series of counterhegemonic literary maneuvers.2 At this point, it seems worth examining these transnational histories in tandem, especially in the context of the early 1970s, a juncture that has figured prominently in the previous scholarship. Social scientists have highlighted 1973 as the official endpoint of recruitment, a major change in the government’s labor policy with

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