Debate: The rise and fall of the Guestworker system in the post war period and today

7 Outubro 2016, 10:00 • Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

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?

7. Your opinion on guest worker systems?