WhO GOES
WHERE
TO FIND WORK ^
Western Europe has become a magnet
for foreign workers, as the map makes
plain. The workers come from a variety
of countries, most of which are in or
near Western Europe, of course, and
all of which have substantial unemploy
ment problems. European employers
are now ranging even farther afield in
their search for workers.* Cheap air-
charter fares make it possible for many
of the foreign workers from the Medi
terranean area to take their annual va
cations at home, and their ties to their
native countries remain stronger than
those of traditional immigrants.
The map does not show it, but the
foreign-worker phenomenon has re
cently spread to Eastern Europe. Com
munist East Germany employs tens of
thousands of Poles and Hungarians.
They are officially known there as
"foreign friends," but the social prob
lems they create are much the same as
those in the West.
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2,500
rHE FOREIGNERS’
SHARE OF
EUROPE’S JOBS
There are at least 7.5 million foreign
workers in Europe's work force. But
his figure, based on official statistics,
nay understate the total number by as
nuch as 10 percent because it does
iot include illegal residents. West Ger-
nany has the largest absolute number
}f foreign workers, but foreigners make
jp a larger proportion of the work
orco in Switzerland and Luxembourg
both 27 percent).
I nch host country has a different
nix of imported workers and thus a
iomowhal different sot of adjustment
rnhloms. In Britain, tho Irish and pco-
)i from tho nonwhito countries with
Commonwealth background—India,
V stan, the West Indies—predomi-
io . rv ^ce has mostly North Africans,
?wnd mainly Finns, Switzerland
arg^ly ualians. West Germany has a
I.verse mixture. Turks are now the
: roost contingent there, followed by
~'"Slavs and Italians.
11%
V
Foreign workers, in thousands, and as proportions of total work force
FRANCE GREAT BRITAIN SWITZERLAND
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EFHS Portuguese
Spaniards
u~ ■ -; ; Greeks
Italians
Yugoslavians
CmS5 Turks
. Algerians
PI III! I Pakistanis
Indians
mini West Indians
BBSS Irish
PS Hi Norwegians
fm Danes
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