Striking for Belonging: Turkish Gastarbeiter and Integration in Postwar Germany

<span data-path-to-node="1,1"><span class="citation-69">This thesis investigates how Turkish </span><em data-path-to-node="1,1" data-index-in-node="37"><span class="citation-69">Gastarbeiter</span></em><span class="citation-69"> (guest workers) overcame structural marginalization and political exclusion to achieve social and political integration in postwar West Germany</span></span><span data-path-to-node="1,3">. </span><span data-path-to-node="1,5"><span class="citation-68">While the German state initially utilized the "guest worker myth" to treat these individuals as temporary this research argues that active participation in labor union structures and works councils provided critical, non-state pathways for permanent inclusion.&nbsp;</span></span>