Germany as an Immigration Country

Abstract

Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht einen kurzen sozialhistorischen Überblick über das Migrationsgeschehen in Deutschland zu geben. Aus dem Auswanderungsland des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde ein Einwanderungsland neuen Typs. Die Anwerbephase der 60er-Jahre erweist sich retrospektiv als zeitliches Bindeglied zum „Einwanderungsland wider Willen“. Obgleich alle Beteiligten auf deutscher wie ausländischer Seite noch lange am Gastarbeitermythos der baldigen Rückkehr in die jeweiligen Herkunftsländer festhielten, traten mit verlängerten Aufenthaltszeiten, Kettenwanderungen und verstärktem Familiennachzug bereits die Konturen der zukünftigen Einwanderungsgesellschaft Bundesrepublik immer deutlicher zutage. Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit ist die Darstellung von Arbeitsmigranten und anderen einzelnen Zuwanderergruppen (Familennachzug, Spätaussiedler, jüdische Zuwanderung, politische Flüchtlinge aus ehemaligen sozialistischen Ländern, Asylzuwanderung, sonstige Flüchtlinge) sowie Fakten und rechtliche Grundlagen der jeweiligen Zuwanderungsform.U radu su, u kontekstu socijalne povijesti, sintetizirana migracijska iskustva koja su se događala u Njemačkoj. Iz iseljeničke zemlje 19. stoljeća nastala je useljenička zemlja novoga tipa. Razdoblje primanja radne snage, 1960-ih godina, retrospektivno je pokazalo da je Njemačka postala useljenička zemlja protiv svoje volje. Naime, iako su svi sudionici – i iz Njemačke i među useljenicima – dugo zadržavali "gastarbajterski" mit brzoga povratka u zemlje podrijetla, nastale su – zbog dugih boravaka, lančanih useljenja i pojačanih doseljenja članova obitelji – prve konture useljeničkoga društva. Težište rada je – osim na radnim migrantima – i na prikazu doseljeničkih grupa (doseljavanje članova obitelji radnih migranata, obiteljska doseljavanja Nijemaca iz drugih zemalja, doseljavanje Židova, doseljavanja političkih prognanika iz bivših socijalističkih zemalja te potencijalnih azilanata i ostalih izbjeglica) te na činjenicama i pravnom okviru pojedinih useljeničkih modela.In the paper the author synthesises, within the context of social history, migration experiences that took part in Germany. From a 19th century emigration country it has become a new type of immigration country. The period of accepting foreign workers in the 1960s proved retrospectively that Germany had become an immigrant country against its own will. Namely, although all the participants – on the part of Germany and on the part of the immigrants as well – had long nourished the \u27Gastarbeiter\u27 myth of a rapid return to their country of origin, because of their extended stay, chain immigration and immigration of family members, the first contours of an immigration society began to emerge. In addition to migrant workers, the paper also focuses on the presentation of various immigrant groups (immigration of family members of migrant workers, immigration of German families from other countries, immigration of Jews, immigration of political refugees from former socialist countries and potential asylum seekers as well as other refugees) and on facts and the legal framework of certain immigration models

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