Book Reviews : Gastarbeiter = Mitbürger. Bilder-Fakten-Gründe-Chancen-Modelle- Dokumente. Edited by RENE LEUDESDORFF and HORST ZILIESSON (Gelnhausen,Burckhardthaus- Verlag,1971),XVIII + 366 pp. Die Nigger Europas,Zur Lage der Gastarbeiter. Eine Dokumentation. By ERNST KLEE (Düsseldorf,Patmos-Verlag,1971),136 pp. Gastarbeiter,Analysen und Berichte. Edited by ERNST KLEE (Frankfurt a.M.,edition suhrkamp 539,1972),266 pp. 'Gast'—Arbeiter—Report. Edited by HORST KAMMRAD (München,Piper: Reihe Roter Schnitt,1971),116 pp. Die Deutsche Minderheit in der Bundesrepublik. By HERMANN KASSANDER (Darmstadt,Verlag IKU,n.d. but 1971),114 pp. 'Ausländerbeschäftigung und Imperialismus' in Das Argument. (Vol. 13,No. 9-10,December 1971),pp. 741-809. Emigration und Imperialismus: Zur Problematik der Arbeitsemigranten. By PAOLO CINANNI (Munich,Verlagskooperative Trikont,n.d. but 1970),216 pp

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Another book in this vein—W. Fietkau, Sogenannte Gastarbeiter: Report und Kritik (Wuppertal, Juggenddienst-Verlag, 1972)—which is not reviewed here because the author has chosen to write in the slang of the German worker which is quite difficult to understand even for foreigners with normal fluency in German—reports some of the successes of this stance, such as the Statement of the German Caritas in Eichstätt in April 1971 and the Resolution of the Ecumenical Whitsun Meeting in Augsburg in June 1971, both of which demanded the official acceptance of Germany as a country of de facto immigration (as opposed to temporary labour import) and the giving of electoral rights in local elections to non-naturalized foreigners after five years residence. For text of statements, see W. Fietkau, ibid., pp. 187 f. and 189 ff.

See also E. Klee (ed.), Gastarbeiter..., p. 195 ff, and E. Klee, Die Nigger Europas ..., p. 71 ff.

This proposal is printed in full in W. Fietkau, op. cit., pp. 173-80, and in part in E. Klee (ed.), Gastarbeiter ..., pp. 221-6.

One leaflet is reprinted in E. Klee, Die Nigger Europas ..., pp. 127-31.

This is also the subject of the contribution by G. Schiller (pp. 800-09) summarizing the research for his Ph.D. thesis, which has been published in the meantime and which provides a number of valuable theoretical insights and empirical data: G. Schiller , Europäische Arbeitskräftemobilität und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der Mittelmeerländer (Darmstadt, Bläschke Verlag, n.d. but 1971).

P. Cinanni , 'The backgrounds of migration labour', in H. van Houte and W. Melgert (eds.) Foreigners in our Community (Amsterdam and Antwerp, Keesing Publishers, n.d. but 1972), pp. 27-36.

Cf. note 1.

'The amount of this compensation can be calculated by dividing the average educational and training costs for a worker at a given skill level through the number of years of his possible employment abroad', Cinanni, op. cit., n. 14 on p. 215.

It is, significantly, the unorthodox Marxism of a scholar from a sending country, M. Nikolinakos, who faces up to this basic truth; see his contribution in H. van Houte and W. Melgert, eds., op. cit., especially pp. 90-1.

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He was instrumental in putting forward a demand to the organizers of that congress to convene a further congress: of migrant workers. See H. van Houte and W. Melgert (eds.), op. cit., p. 182. Incidentally, the WCC's Churches Committee for Migrant Workers in Western Europe did just that in April 1972 in Geneva; see Migration Today (No. 16, Spring 1972), pp. 64-74.