Socio-structural analysis of immigrant worker minorities: the case of West Germany.

Abstract

In purely economic terms the Federal Republic of Germany has been an immigrant society from .its very· beginning. Till 1.961, 13.34 Mill. people emigrated to West Germany,· primarily from areas of the former state territory and the German Democratic Republic (cf. Wieduwilt and Jurgens, 1976:13·8J. ~owever, these migrants and fugitives 'had been of German nationality. True immigration began only after 1961 when the German Democratic Republic closed its border and internal demographic and sociostructural processes decreased the West German work force.' The growing industry found new markets in southern Europe for the recruitment of labor. The. number of foreign employed-a very large majority of them workers-rose from 0.5 Mill. in 1961 or 2*5 percent of the total work force to a high of 2.6 .Mill. in 1973 or 11lJ9 percent of the total work force; due to the economic crisis it has dropped to around 2 Mill. or a little under 10 percent of the total work force by now. This paper has two major 'intentions: 1) to demonstrate that West Germany has become an immigrant society in a trueIy sociologieal'sense; .that the so-called "guese-workers'

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移民工人的社会结构分析:以西德为例。

从纯粹的经济角度来看，德意志联邦共和国从一开始就是一个移民社会。到1961年，共有1334万人。移民到西德的人，主要来自前国家领土和德意志民主共和国(参见Wieduwilt和Jurgens, 1976:13)。然而，这些移民和逃亡者都是德国人。真正的移民是在1961年之后才开始的，当时德意志民主共和国关闭了边境，内部的人口和社会结构进程减少了西德的劳动力。”这个不断发展的产业在南欧找到了新的劳动力市场。的。外国雇员的数量——其中绝大多数是工人——从50万上升。在1961年占总劳动力的2* 5%，达到260万。1973年占总劳动力的11.9%;由于经济危机，它已经下降到200万左右。或者到目前为止占总劳动力的比例略低于10%。本文有两个主要意图:1)证明西德已经成为一个真正的社会学意义上的移民社会;所谓的“外来务工人员”和“外来务工人员”已经成为社会结构的一部分;2)“提出一种分析移民工人的社会结构概念，

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