Glossary

1

1973 Oil crisis

A

Asylum compromise

Asylum Seekers Benefit Act/ principle of benefit in kind

B

Ban on labour recruitment

Border transit camp

C

Commune/ council

Contract worker

Coup d’état in Turkey 1980 (as reason for flight)

Cross-cultural pedagogy

D

Demographic change

Diversity marketing/ Ethnic marketing/ multicultural marketing

Dublin procedure

E

Educational federalism

Emergency reception centre

Emergency reception procedure

Equalisation of Burdens payment

Escape from the German Democratic Republic (Republikflucht)

Ethnic German migrants

Ethnicity, ethnic

EU freedom of movement

European Economic Community

European route 5 / (“guest worker” route)

Everyday racism

Expellees and refugees

F

Family reunification/Family migration

Federal Expellee Law

Federal Foreign Office

Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)

Flight/ fleeing

Forced migration

Foreign/Foreigness

Foreigner advisory board /Integration council

Foreigner education

Former German Eastern Territories

G

Geneva Refugee Convention

German Commission/ Labour Placement Office

German Democratic Republic (GDR)

Ghetto/Ghetto formation/Ghettoization

Green Card (German)

Guest worker camp

Guest worker literature

Guest worker music

H

Heimat/ Sense of Home/ Homeland

I

Illegal Migration

Immigration Act

Intercultural competence

Islamisation/ Islamophobia

J

Jewish quota refugees

Jus soli/ jus sanguinis/ principle of descent

K

Kofferkinder (“suitcase children”)

L

Labour migration

Labour recruitment agreement

M

Mass naturalisation

Mediterranean route/ Balkan route

Migrant organisation

Migration background

Migration history

N

National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD)

National Socialist Underground (NSU)

Neo-Nazi/ Skinhead

P

Parallel society

Possession of a third country nationality/ Third-country nationals

Primary transit camp

Priority employment of nationals

Promotion of voluntary return/ Law on the promotion of voluntary return

Publicly Owned Operations/ state owned companies

Q

R

Racial profiling

Racism/ racist attacks

Re-education/ re-education camps

Recruitment by name

Refugee reception centre

Regular class/school

Repatriation grant

Resettler from East Germany

Residence permit/ residence title

Right-wing extremism

Roots/ rootedness

Rotation principle

S

Second World War

Sites of remembrance

Socialist “brother states”

Socially troubled area

Soviet Occupation Zone

Soviet Zone Refugees

T

Temporary work/ short-term contract/ work contract

Three-tier school system

Transylvanian Saxons

Treaty of Warsaw

Ü

W

Welfare Organisations