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Gastarbeiter

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Gast·ar·beit·er  (gästär-btr)
n.
A guest worker, especially one in Germany.

[German : Gast, guest (from Middle High German, from Old High German; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots) + Arbeiter, worker (from arbeiten, to work, from Arbeit, work, from Middle High German arebeit, from Old High German arabeit; see orbh- in Indo-European roots).]


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How does our understanding of Hofer's "architecture of absence" change when it is considered together with what we might term her "architecture of presence"--the late '70s photographic studies of Turkish Gastarbeiter (guest workers), congregating at home and at neighborhood hangouts in Cologne and Hamburg, that immediately preceded her shift to depopulated interiors?
Austrian opposition to Turkish membership is a toxic blend of historical prejudice and contemporary fear, of Ottoman janissaries at the gates of Vienna, of Hapsburg nostalgia, and Muslim gastarbeiter [foreign workers] flooding in from deepest Anatolia," wrote the UK's Guardian on Sept.
In West Germany the Gastarbeiter ("guest workers") who arrived in the 1960s and 1970s came largely from Germany's historic ally, Turkey.
 
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