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Here for Good: Western Europe's New Ethnic Minorities.
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1985
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EthnicityHuman MigrationFrenchEducationGreat BritainEthnic Group RelationSocial SciencesWestern EuropeRaceForced MigrationLabor MigrationAfrican American StudiesCultural DiversityMinority RightEthnic StudiesMigration PolicyMass Labor MigrationSocial ClassMulticulturalismEuropean StudiesInternational Population MovementSociologyMigrant WorkerImmigration
Western Europe’s population grew by 10 million between 1950 and 1975 largely due to labor migration from less developed countries, a trend that ended in the early 1970s and set the stage for economic stagnation, social crisis, and the emergence of new ethnic minorities as migrants settled and brought their families. The book investigates migration patterns, origins, development, and structure of ethnic minorities, as well as their legal and political repercussions in Great Britain, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and West Germany. The authors use statistical data and fieldwork to analyze migrants’ and minorities’ roles in the labor market, second‑generation challenges, rising racism and neo‑Nazism, working‑class restructuring, and labor and left‑wing responses, contrasting Britain’s long‑standing acceptance of colonial settlers with West Germany’s lack of settlement rights.
Western Europes population increased by 10 million people between 1950 and 1975 largely due to labor migration from less developed countries. This development stage requiring mass labor migration ended in the early 1970s beginning a period of economic stagnation and social crisis. Many of the migrants became settlers and sent for their dependents to join them forming new ethnic minorities in the receiving countries. This book examines migration patterns migrants origins the development and structure of ethnic minorities and legal and political repercussions for Great Britain Belgium France The Netherlands Sweden Switzerland and West Germany. Data come from a variety of statistical sources and the authors field work. The author concentrates on the role of migrants and minorities in the labor force the problems of the second generation in terms of educational and vocational opportunities the growth of racism and neonaziism the restructuring of the working class and the responses of organized labor and the political left. Much of the discussion contrasts the reaction of Great Britain which has accepted colonial settlers for years with that of West Germany whose guest workers have had no settlement rights.