In the 2011 tragic comedy Almanya: Wilkommen in Deutschland ( Welcome to Germany ), director and writer Yasemin Şamdereli presents us the story of three generations of a Turkish immigrant family in Germany that adapts and portrays identity politics and questions of belonging faced by the Turkish guest workers and their descendants.Īlmanya spans two parallel storylines taking place in different time periods, one of a family moving from Turkey to Germany as foreign workers, the other is of the same family years later returning to Turkey for a visit as German citizens. Seventy years after Germany’s infamous Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) and the bilateral deals with various countries to bring in foreign labor for the restructuring of the country, Germany’s ethnic diversity has not been the same since.
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