Die "Gastarbeiter-Welt"

Richter, Hedwig; Richter, Ralf P.

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“…German factory workers had to be urged again and again not to call their foreign colleagues Fremdarbeiter, a term apparently echoing the Nazi era, although at that time they were mainly called Ausländer. 61 In everyday situations referring to the Nazi era was not a taboo either. To quote a stark example: in an oral history interview, an Italian who had worked in Mannheim in the 1960s said that his German colleagues at the construction site kept provoking him by calling him, besides all the other racial slurs, an Italian traitor.…”

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Ignoring Racism in the History of the German Immigration Society: Some Reflections on Comparison as an Epistemic Practice

Alexopoulou

2021

Journal for the History of Knowledge

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The entanglement of the history of racism with the history of migration in Germany has been ignored thus far in German historiography. Exploring the epistemological significance of ignorance in sustaining racial knowledge in democratic, pluralistic societies is a relatively new field of research; in the German case it is virtually absent. Taking seriously Linda Martín Alcoff's dictum that ignoring racism is a substantial epistemic practice of sustaining it, it seems worth studying the hermeneutic means by which German historiography creates this blind spot. One of the central motifs in this context is the "zero hour," according to which German migration history only commenced in the mid-1950s and had nothing to do with how Germans had treated migrants since the turn of the century, particularly those considered as "völkisch" 1 undesirable Others. In this article, the methods of comparison and omission are discussed as key epistemic tools for writing the zero hour into German migration history. This narrative path is contrasted with microhistorical accounts that reveal the ongoing production of racial knowledge and ignorance and their entanglement, which formed the basis of a new "art of communicating" about Others after the Holocaust. Racial knowledge is known and ignored simultaneously, so that even a supposedly anti-racist society does not have to erase it as long as it is "dominantly" ignored. This particular relationship reflects the idea that knowledge and ignorance per se are an entangled continuum with a myriad of grey scales where ignorance contains knowledge and knowledge is upheld by ignorance.This article is part of a special issue entitled "Histories of Ignorance," edited by Lukas M.

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Ignoring Racism in the History of the German Immigration Society: Some Reflections on Comparison as an Epistemic Practice

Alexopoulou

2021

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“…Sex workers who used the clinic generally reported positive experiences. 75 From 2002 onwards, a mobile branch of this clinic, which would physically go to and operate out of particular residential hotels on a once-a-month basis, was introduced. 76 Sex workers' response to this mobile clinic (which was eventually also extended to provide services to male and transsexual sex workers) has been overwhelmingly positive and the take-up of its services has been high.…”

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