How the Federal Republic Became an Immigration Country: Norms, Politics and the Failure of West Germany's Guest Worker System
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Abstract
With the passage of a new citizenship law in 1999 and the so-called Zuwanderungsgesetz (Migration Law) of 2004, contemporary Germany has gone a long way toward acknowledging its status as an immigration country (Einwanderungsland). Yet, Germany is still regarded by many as a “reluctant” land of immigration, different than traditional immigration countries such as Canada, the United States, and Australia. It owes this image to the fact that many of today’s “immigrants” were in fact “guests,” invited to work in the Federal Republic in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and expected to leave when they were no longer needed. Migration was meant to be a temporary measure, to stoke the engine of the Economic Miracle but not fundamentally alter German society. The question, then, is how did these “guest workers” become immigrants? Why did the Federal Republic become an immigration country?
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it