ENG 102-8. Guest Workers and Günter Wallraff

Hi again,
I also want to talk about the picture and the meaning of it. This picture is from the book cover of Günter Wallraf, who disguised himself as a Turk worker in Germany and he is a popular German writer. He became Ali and looked for a job and he saw the hard life conditions of German Turks. This book, Ganz Unten (At the Bottom)( En Alttakiler),is very nice and interesting book for learning the life conditions of Germans, Turks and also the guest workers in Germany as Turks.

Germans said that they wanted "workers" not individuals. Germans made health controls to Turks which were very pejorative such as wrote line numbers on the bodies of Turks, looked every little points on their bodies etc.