This paper will state the immigration issues and guest workers in the nations of Germany and The United States in the 1950’s and 1989. Explaining the situation guest workers were in and the work they were hired to do as well as the postwar refugees and expellees. The production of labor by millions of people have changed these nations and have been granted with nothing but a deportation back to their native country. The benefits of having a better reform system will benefit both the employee and employer; in this case the immigrant and the country. The reason why some of the laws got vetoed and the reputation guarded by the congress and the nation leaders. The damaged caused by a bloody history has impacted today’s norms and perspectives on
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In the Holocaust, millions of innocent Jewish individuals and families were killed; “ I must apologize for the conduct of my nation in the war” (Carle, Robert. "Citizenship Debates In The New Germany." Society 44.6 (2007): 147-154.). After the Holocaust, the German people targeted the Federal government as racist for excluding refugees compared every program intended for guest workers to the Holocaust. The battle between the parties, the Christian Democratic Union, the Green Party and the Social Democratic Party was crucial in this era; all three parties had a different view on the subject of refugees much like today. The CDU argued, “Every state…has to serve its own citizens first, and only secondly the rest of the world… Germany cannot become everyone’s country” (Carle, Robert. "Citizenship Debates In The New Germany." Society 44.6 (2007): 147-154.). It makes sense since Germany is a country of its people, but then again, when the labor of many immigrants was needed to rebuild the nation after the Holocaust, the people did not mind cheaper and faster labor even if it was not from its people but immigrants. While the Green party stated in the 1950’s, “ Citizenship should not determine the rights of the individual, but where an individual lives” their motives and campaigns were based on human rights, not on the idea of
In the Holocaust, millions of innocent Jewish individuals and families were killed; “ I must apologize for the conduct of my nation in the war” (Carle, Robert. "Citizenship Debates In The New Germany." Society 44.6 (2007): 147-154.). After the Holocaust, the German people targeted the Federal government as racist for excluding refugees compared every program intended for guest workers to the Holocaust. The battle between the parties, the Christian Democratic Union, the Green Party and the Social Democratic Party was crucial in this era; all three parties had a different view on the subject of refugees much like today. The CDU argued, “Every state…has to serve its own citizens first, and only secondly the rest of the world… Germany cannot become everyone’s country” (Carle, Robert. "Citizenship Debates In The New Germany." Society 44.6 (2007): 147-154.). It makes sense since Germany is a country of its people, but then again, when the labor of many immigrants was needed to rebuild the nation after the Holocaust, the people did not mind cheaper and faster labor even if it was not from its people but immigrants. While the Green party stated in the 1950’s, “ Citizenship should not determine the rights of the individual, but where an individual lives” their motives and campaigns were based on human rights, not on the idea of