From «Gastarbeiter» to European Expatriates: Greek Migrant Communities in Germany and Their Socio-Political Integration

ISBN-13: 9781788745604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 236 str.

Eleni Tseligka

Opis

The Gastarbeiter (guest worker) agreement between Greece and Germany in 1960 sparked the biggest wave of emigration to central Europe in the history of the modern Greek state. This book examines the impact of this agreement on Greek migrants, partcularly in relation to the role that their social and cultural background played in integration.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Aspects of European unification - The background of Greek Gastarbeiter migration - The first twenty years from arrival to settlement: 1960-1980 - The village, the Church and the Greek communities - Integration and Europeanisation - Disintegration and re-marginalisation

O autorze

Eleni Tseligka holds a PhD in Intraeuropean Migration from Staffordshire University, where she also worked as a lecturer in politics. Her research interests focus on diasporas, migration and EU migration policies, religion and identity-related issues, nationalism and the European public sphere. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, an International Associate of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, a member of the editorial board for the Cogent Arts & Humanities and a peer reviewer for the International Migration Journal. She is currently teaching politics and international relations at Aston University.