문화소통과 사회통합

The Cultural Communication and Integration: Kühn’s Memorandum(1979) and the National Integration Plan(2007) in Germany

Germany has a long tradition of the foreign policy that allowed the temporary employment of foreign workers, but prevented the settlement of migrants. Some immigrants in Germany got only exceptionally the permanent residence permit. They had to assimilate or integrate to the culture of the arriving society. This cultural communication, also the assimilation is now criticizing. Nevertheless, the traditional way of cultural communication influences the contemporary integration policies still. The paper attempts to analyse the German integration policies, above all Kuhn’s Memorandum and the National Integration Plan in historical perspective.