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Deutschländer

The term “Deutschländer” is the translation of the Turkish expression “Almancılar” and means “German”. “Almancılar” was a term, used in Turkey, to describe migrants from Turkey or German citizens with ancestors from Turkey who lived and worked in Germany or were born there as the children of labour migrants. While this expression shows the marginalisation of those people in Turkey, at the same time these “Germans” were marginalised in Germany as “guest workers”.