ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the migration of Turkish nationals to Western Europe as migrant workers during the official recruitment period from 1960 to 1974. Moreover, misperceptions and erroneous assessments of the 1960s and 1970s, sometimes in updated forms, have re-emerged in several later publications that also touch upon the post-war labour migration to Europe in general and the Turkish labour migration in particular. In later years, when some studies sought to mention ‘push’ factors of the Turkish labour migration they confined themselves to reiterating some of the existing arguments. More recently, the claim has been brought to the point of putting the Turkish labour migration to Germany in the same category as the post-war colonial migration to the colonial or dominant countries. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
