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Article: Economy: New Age 'Gastarbeiter'; Should Europe fear unchecked immigration from Turkey? No. In fact, it ought to pray for it--along with the rest of the EU.(Cover Story)
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- October 11, 2004
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Byline: Rana Foroohar and Owen Matthews
Turkey may be one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. It may have cleaned up its banking system, simplified its tax code and become the darling of emerging-market investors everywhere. Yet for Europeans, the country is still epitomized by its highest-profile export to the EU--the Gastarbeiter .
That's German for "guest worker," specifically those who are Turkish. During the 1960s and '70s, in the heyday of Europe's economic boom, these poor, uneducated Anatolian peasants flooded into Germany, France and Austria, sweeping floors, washing dishes in restaurants and clustering in ethnic communities isolated ...