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Minorities in Germany

Explore the guest worker program, ethnic Germans, Turks, and Afro-Germans in Germany's immigrant landscape. Learn about demographics, integration, and challenges faced by these minority groups over the years.

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Minorities in Germany

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  1. Minorities in Germany Groups and Guest Workers Courtney Novotny E.J. Paterline Caitlin Bradford

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 9% of the population Danes, Sorbs, Slavic peoples, and Gypsies 7.3 million foreigners Turks 1,900,000 Yugoslavs 565,000 Italians 350,000 Poles 260,000 Austrians 185,000 Population

  5. 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

  6. Turks

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Afro-Germans

  10. 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

  11. 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 couldn’t get or keep jobs • Citizenship and passports were taken away Two Generations of Afro-Germans at Die Weisse Rose.

  12. 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”

  13. 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

  14. Works Cited “Ethnic Minorities.” Federal Foreign Office. 2000. 30 Nov. 2004 <http://www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de/805.0.html>. “Ethnic Minorities.” U.S. Library of Congress. 2003. 30 Nov. 2004 <http://countrystudies.us/germany/>. “German ‘Guest Workers’ Offer Lesson in Immigration Policy.” Germany Online. 16 Jan. 2004. 29 Nov. 2004 <http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/ publications/week/2004/040116/politics3.html>. Loick, Antonia. “Turks in Germany – A Special Group Within German Society.” Goethe-Institut. 2004. 29 Nov. 2004 <http://www.goethe.de/ 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 <http://www.urpress.com/ 80461832.HTM.>. “Minorities in Germany.” German Info. 2004. 30 Nov. 2004 <http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/facts/facts/ questions_en/landandpeople/population7.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 <http://www.tgd.de/tgd/index.php?newlang=eng>.

  15. Works Cited “Ethnic Minorities.” Federal Foreign Office. 2000. 30 Nov. 2004 <http://www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de/805.0.html>. “Ethnic Minorities.” U.S. Library of Congress. 2003. 30 Nov. 2004 <http://countrystudies.us/germany/>. “German ‘Guest Workers’ Offer Lesson in Immigration Policy.” Germany Online. 16 Jan. 2004. 29 Nov. 2004 <http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/ publications/week/2004/040116/politics3.html>. Loick, Antonia. “Turks in Germany – A Special Group Within German Society.” Goethe-Institut. 2004. 29 Nov. 2004 <http://www.goethe.de/ 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 <http://www.urpress.com/ 80461832.HTM.>. “Minorities in Germany.” German Info. 2004. 30 Nov. 2004 <http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/facts/facts/ questions_en/landandpeople/population7.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 <http://www.tgd.de/tgd/index.php?newlang=eng>.

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