Minorities in Germany

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Minorities in Germany

• Groups and Guest Workers
• Courtney Novotny
• E.J. Paterline
• Caitlin Bradford

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Turks
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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

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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

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Afro-Germans
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A Little Bit of History

• Africans were thought to be lowest human form
• No one knows exact time when first Afro-Germans
  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

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• During Middle Ages Africans were portrayed as
  evil
• With the rise of National Socialism many
  Afro-Germans were sterilized
• During third Reich Afro-Germans/Africans couldnt
  get or keep jobs
• Citizenship and passports were taken away

Two Generations of Afro-Germans at Die Weisse
Rose.
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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

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Afro-Germans Today

• 500,000 Afro-Germans make up the 80 million total
  population in Germany today
• Many of the Afro-Germans today are of American
  G.I. heritage

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Works Cited

• Ethnic Minorities. Federal Foreign Office.
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• Ethnic Minorities. U.S. Library of Congress.
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• German Guest Workers Offer Lesson in
  Immigration Policy. Germany Online. 16 Jan.
  2004. 29 Nov. 2004 launch/info/ publications/week/2004/040116/politic
  s3.html.
• Loick, Antonia. Turks in Germany A Special
  Group Within German Society. Goethe-Institut.
  2004. 29 Nov. 2004 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
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• Minorities in Germany. German Info. 2004. 30
  Nov. 2004 fo/facts/facts/ questions_en/landandpeople/populat
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• 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 .

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Works Cited

• Ethnic Minorities. Federal Foreign Office.
  2000. 30 Nov. 2004 utschland.de/805.0.html.
• Ethnic Minorities. U.S. Library of Congress.
  2003. 30 Nov. 2004 any/.
• German Guest Workers Offer Lesson in
  Immigration Policy. Germany Online. 16 Jan.
  2004. 29 Nov. 2004 launch/info/ publications/week/2004/040116/politic
  s3.html.
• Loick, Antonia. Turks in Germany A Special
  Group Within German Society. Goethe-Institut.
  2004. 29 Nov. 2004 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
  .
• Minorities in Germany. German Info. 2004. 30
  Nov. 2004 fo/facts/facts/ questions_en/landandpeople/populat
  ion7.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 .