A History Shared and Divided. East and West Germany Since the 1970s
448 MAREN MÖHRING At the end of World War II, postwar Germany was a “hub” of inter- national migration due to the almost seven m ...
MOBILITY AND MIGRATION 449 East and West German asylum policies, which can be seen as a reaction to common global challenges. Tw ...
450 MAREN MÖHRING developed to deal with this topic.^8 In the 1990s, transnational approaches began to replace earlier analytica ...
MOBILITY AND MIGRATION 451 as in the case of the mass exodus from the GDR in the summer of 1989.^12 The praxis of migration can ...
452 MAREN MÖHRING gleichsgesetz (Equalization of Burdens Act) that was passed in 1952.^16 Yet neither of these approaches necess ...
MOBILITY AND MIGRATION 453 On the other side of the border, the GDR leadership referred to this East-West migration as Republikf ...
454 MAREN MÖHRING West, in the 1950s did not feel at home in the other part of Germany for quite some time. This refl ected the ...
MOBILITY AND MIGRATION 455 fi cation, approximately seventy-fi ve thousand attempts to fl ee the GDR failed, with an estimated d ...
456 MAREN MÖHRING eign countries were therefore akin to a third space where it was possible to keep up contacts that were otherw ...
MOBILITY AND MIGRATION 457 the GDR took further steps to make visits easier, including the reduction of the minimum amount of cu ...
458 MAREN MÖHRING War II. Referred to as the Gastarbeiter system, these treaties led to strong entanglements between the Europea ...
MOBILITY AND MIGRATION 459 not only in West Germany, but also in all other northern and western European countries who had engag ...
460 MAREN MÖHRING workers recruited from these countries were supposed to stay in the country only on a temporary basis. For ins ...
MOBILITY AND MIGRATION 461 industry, or the hospitality sector. Moreover, both states found a similar answer to a similar proble ...
462 MAREN MÖHRING ing southerners,” “philistine” Eastern European, and Africans “from the bush”^85 circulated virulently in both ...
MOBILITY AND MIGRATION 463 non-Europeans, which also aff ected the negotiating position of the coun- tries who supplied labor re ...
464 MAREN MÖHRING policy was clearly driven by its foreign policy interests: on the one hand, in keeping with international soli ...
MOBILITY AND MIGRATION 465 ting these refugees. All over West Germany—apart from Bavaria—the refugees were not selected on the b ...
466 MAREN MÖHRING the countries of origin became more diversifi ed. In addition to the mili- tary coup in Chile, the end of the ...
MOBILITY AND MIGRATION 467 To sum up the asylum and refugee situation in divided Germany, it can safely be said that the number ...
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