The rise and fall of the Guestworker system in the post war period and today
7 Março 2019, 15:00 • Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho
Debate: The rise and fall of the Guestworker system in the post war period and today
Reading - Castles, S. (1986) The Guestworker in Western Europe: An obituary, International Migration Review, Vol. 20, No.4, pp. 761-778.
Group discussion questions – guest worker systems in post-war Europe
1. Common characteristics among all guest worker systems?
2. Pros and cons of the system?
3. What was the political economy of the guest worker system?
4. Why did they decline after 1973?
5. What could have been done differently?
6. US system
– pros and cons
– how does it compare with the traditional post war European system?