Patterns of Organization among Different Ethnic Minorities

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ID4070998
AuthorsDietrich Thränhardt (corresponding author)
Year1989
Issue46
Pages10
Publication date1989-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew German Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/488312
OpenAlexW2313251883
LanguageEN
Citations received7

a) Organizations and Their Environment The development of migrants' organizations and other subcultural structures (Turkish press in Germany, a special video market, Greek kafeinions, Gastarbeiterliteratur, and the like) has been largely ignored by the German public and by social scientists. The feeling of native dominance over the migrants (What should be done with the foreigners?) and the social scientists' penchant for representative opinion, for poll data, have led to a neglect of the migrants' own approaches towards their lives and problems in Germany. In the following introductory remarks I will not discuss the facts common to the immigrant experience in Western Europe, that is, the new immigration waves since the sixties, the migrants' specialization in certain unpopular jobs and industries, the substandard living conditions, the housing and school problems, the unemployment since the first oil crisis, the treatment of migrants as scapegoats for economic and social problems, the irresponsible readiness of some politicians and parties to explain these xenophobic tendencies. Certain traits of the German environment influence the migrants' organizational possibilities and should be taken into consideration as a prerequisite for a comparative discussion of migrants' organizations in various West European countries

Ethnic group · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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