Transatlantic Immigration Lessons

August 07, 2008

Vandalism on a political cartoon museum's wall shows how issues of Turkish inclusion are still close to home. The message reads "Entrance for a free-thinking Turkey," referencing Turkey's bid to the EU. The Turkish are Germany's largest minority.

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( Phoenix/Bonn, Germany ) KJZZ's Tony Ganzer begins an occasional series from Germany as part of the Arthur Burns journalism fellowship, where he'll tell stories that compare immigration issues on each side of the Atlantic. Germany is now coping with the results of a massive guest worker program from the 60s and 70s, which brought Turkish and other minority workers into the country during the "economic miracle." Some of the lessons of that program, may influence current attempts at immigration reform in the U.S. In this first installment, Ganzer tells why one Phoenix man's past experience with immigration issues in Europe influenced his sometimes heated future.