Foreigners in Germany

German-Turkish hip-hop has had a seminal influence on rap music in Turkey. A sociologist and a documentary film maker have travelled to Munich to find out why this is so.More ...

For many years Germany did not consider itself to be a country of immigration (Einwanderungsland). The constant rise in the number of migrants, however, showed that it had in fact become one.More ...

In the 1950s West Germany experienced an economic boom which quickly led to a shortage of labour. The war had decimated the German workforce.More ...

At the end of 2002, 7.3 million foreigners (Ausländer) were living in Germany. Their number amounts to approximately 8.9% of the population as a whole.More ...