29th December 2001 _ Geography Essay
Outline the Economic/Social/Environmental effects of such a migration.
The migration I will be concentrating on is the Turkish ‘guestworkers’ in Germany.
Following the Second World War, Germany was in a state of economic collapse. The country had lost over 4.5 million people in the war and many more, especially the Jewish population, had left the country in fear of being tortured, and persecution. There was nothing short of an economic miracle as Germany used aid from abroad to develop new industries in many cities. However, there was a shortage of labour that threatened the industrial recovery. Importing ‘Guestworkers’, especially from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Italy and Greece solved this. These countries were less developed than Germany. When the Berlin wall was built, more labourers moved into West Germany from the East. The migration of ‘Guestworkers’ brought both advantages and disadvantages to the gaining country and the loosing country.