ANT 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Arab States Of The Persian Gulf, Dependency Ratio
9 Dec 2017
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Economic boom of the 1960s and early 1970s. Labor shortages, notably because of the impacts of wwll. Workers were invited to germany, switzerland, the netherlands, belgium, France, sweden and a few other northern and western european states. Recruited primarily from spain, portugal, italy, greece, turkey, yugoslavia, Variety of guest worker programs to fill jobs no longer needed or wanted by nationals. These programs did not intend that the workers would stay permanently in the host country. Economy began to decline during the 1970s: Most of the workers no longer intended to go home . Many had children who had grown up in the new society. Many people were forced to return to the source country when their work permits expired. Some remain and constitute minority populations in countries accustomed to high degrees of homogeneity. Caused a variety of social problems in many countries. Some have no provisions for foreigners to eventually become citizens.
