Translation of "Anwerbeabkommen" in English

The recruitment agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the then socialist Yugoslavia was settled in October 1968.

At that year West Germany and Yugoslavia signed an agreement on labour force which allowed a large number of Croats to go to work in Germany as guest workers.

As there was also a recruitment agreement with Yugoslavia, this explains the relatively high proportion of labour emigrants (28 percent) and accompanying family members (59 percent) from south-eastern Europe.

Before 50 Years on 31. October 1961 the recruitment agreement was signed between the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey in Bad Godesberg.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the recruitment agreements between Germany and Greece as well as between Germany and Spain a new special exhibition was launched within the online migration museum »Lebenswege« (paths of life).

For the first recruitment contracts in the mid-1950s, they were mostly accommodated in dormitories provided by their employers.

According to this framework, the period of "guest work" was limited, roughly between the mid-1950s and the oil shock of the 1973 economic crisis; characterized by a "development gap" between Northern (Western) and Southern Europe, as well as some North African countries, in the decades following the Second World War; and further characterized by bilateral recruitment agreements concluded between the states concerned in relation to the (more or less temporary) transfer of workforce.

Refuge and asylum as a reason for migration play an important role among migrants from countries with no recruitment agreement.

The proportion of labour migrants from countries with which Germany concluded recruitment agreements during the period of the "economic miracle" in the 1960s is especially large.

Initially, it signed a labour recruitment treaty with Italy in 1955, and subsequently concluded agreements with Spain, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, and Yugoslavia throughout the 1960s.

On May 15, 1964 the Austrian government signed a recruitment deal with Turkey in order to remedy the acute shortage of workers.

Switzerland's colonial connections are effective until today and the recruitment agreement with Italy was not succeeded by steps for legal protection of migrant laborers.

Because in the 60s there was a labor shortage in Germany, was hoped for help from the Mediterranean countries and there were labor recruitment – including with Turkey – signed.

Muslims came to Germany in greater numbers with the signing of recruitment agreements with Muslim states, such as Turkey (1961), Morocco (1963), Tunisia (1965) and Yugoslavia (1968).

Germany's economic miracle was, of course, driven by the steady influx of skilled and motivated workers from the East, and when that source dried up, recruitment agreements were concluded with Italy, Spain, Greece and lastly, a few months after the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961, even with Turkey, despite doubts already being voiced about possible cultural incompatibilities.

In the case of some of the Balkan states new recruitment agreements were settled in summer 2015: from 2016 onwards also “less qualified” workers from the western Balkan states (who already reside in Germany) are allowed to work in Germany if they can prove they have a concrete apprenticeship or job offer – but only under the condition that they withdrew their application for asylum by 24th of October 2015 and returned to their countries of origin (in order to re-enter when required).