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Fear of the Family offers a comprensive postwar history of guest worker migration to the Federal Republic of Germany, particularly from Greece, Turkey, and Italy. It analyzes the West German government's policies formulated to get migrants to work in the country during the prime of their productive years but to try to block them from bringing their families or becoming an expense for the state.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The "Market-Conforming Family" in the Era of Labor Recruitment
- Chapter 2: The Racialization of Space: Family Housing and Anti-Ghettoization Policy
- Chapter 3: Trickles of Money, Floods of Children: The 1974 Child Allowance Reform and the Birth of the"Welfare Migrant"
- Chapter 4: Are Men Family Members? Husbands, Teenagers, and "False Family Reunification"
- Chapter 5: "Foreign Parents Violate the Rights of the Children": Restricting Child Migration in the Name of Child Welfare
- Chapter 6: Marriage, Deportation, and the Politics of Vulnerability
- Chapter 7: Between Two Fathers? The Foreign Child in Citizenship Reform
- Conclusion Migration Without End
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Lauren Stokes is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.
Summary
Fear of the Family offers a comprensive postwar history of guest worker migration to the Federal Republic of Germany, particularly from Greece, Turkey, and Italy. It analyzes the West German government's policies formulated to get migrants to work in the country during the prime of their productive years but to try to block them from bringing their families or becoming an expense for the state.
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In her book, Lauren Stokes describes how a political culture of fear of the foreign family became the basis of family policy in general in the Federal Republic of Germany. The seven chapters of her book take seriously German fears of foreign families, which in turn created fear within immigrant families.
