ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes receiving country-related aspects of the migration process, and thus to complete a full picture of it. It illuminates the place of Turkish labour migration in the post-war migratory movements to Western Europe. That is, at what stage and under which circumstances the receiving countries came to decide to recruit labour from Turkey and in due course enlarged the number of Turkish workers, and the significance of Turkish labour as part of their foreign labour demand. In order to better situate its significance for the foreign labour demand of each of the receivers, the chapter examines three areas: the state of international migration in the post-war years; the composition of the European labour market and the demand for foreign labour during the 1960–1974 period; and the position of Southern European countries vis-a-vis sending labourers abroad. The Turkish labour migration, its changing allocation by the country of destination and its eventual heavy concentration in Germany was determined by demand.
