Quote:
No more Turks can cross the border!
Source:
Die ZEIT, 05.02.1982.
Author Bio:
Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015) was an SPD politician and Federal Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1982.
Context:
In the early 1980s, despite the end of the Fordist labour regime, debates about repatriation intensified. One of the common lines of argument came from within politics, whether the governing Conservatives or the opposition Social Democrats: the number of migrants should be reduced and a second cycle of repatriation campaigns organised. What was not taken into account was the increasing number of right-wing groups and of de facto hate crimes against migrants, which took place in the shadow of governing parties’ racist discourses on foreign infiltration and their population ideologies. The victims were thereby made into perpetrators because “Germany” risked being overburdened. Today, this ideological turn legitimises what has become morally and socially acceptable neo-racism in the highly industrialised and “enlightened” Global North.Further Reading:
*DOMID (2021): 60 years Almanya – Migration from Turkey.
Year:
1982