Assimilation and attachment in the context of international migration: the case of guestworkers in Germany
Adaptation ; Assimilation ; Enquiry ; Federal Republic of Germany ; Germany ; Immigration ; International migration ; Period of stay ; Social integration
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of attachment and assimilation, with a special focus on the impact of duration of stay. Using survey data on guestworkers in West Germany in 1984 and 1989, the study finds
In Germany it reveals a general trend which assigns a higher importance to the environment and landscape in the development of cities. Even so the development towards a scattered urban landscape based on extensive individual mass mobility could
not be brought to a halt. In addition to this, the process of catching up in East Germany with regard to suburbanisation has proceeded in the same way as in West Germany before unification, even though this development was already recognised as being ecologically
In eastern Germany the services first gained importance following unification. So far western Germany has a much more diverse selection of high-grade enterprise-oriented services, which are concentrated in several internationally interlinked centres
The major landform regions in Landforms and landform evolution in West Germany.
On the basis of the morphostructural pattern, of the existing landform associations and of their morphogenetic development, the areas of the Federal Republic of Germany can be subdivided into five major landform regions : the North German Lowlands
European Union ; Germany ; Gross domestic product ; Infant mortality ; Living standard ; Regional disparities ; Social inequality ; Socio-economic indicators ; Unemployment
The soils were surveyed, described and examined at a remote forested high-elevation site of the Bavarian Forest (Germany). They derive from periglacial gneiss debris consisting of an upper, loose stratum and an indurated zone below. The different