Postwar Western Europe shifted from emigration to mass destination of immigration.

Evidence

After having been a continent of emigration for more than a century, Western Europe (at least countries like West Germany and France) now became a destination of mass immigration. In most countries, internal migrants were increasingly outnumbered by foreign labor migrants, in France mainly from the former colonial empire, in West Germany by Mediterranean ‘guest workers’. Scholars in the European history of migration have long tended to focus on these forms of ‘free’ labor migration, while the study of involuntary forms of mobility (such as the slave trade or indentured labor for example) has been relegated to non-European societies. However, twentieth-century European societies were also shaped by unfree forms of mobility. The confluence of these different forms of migration and the continuities between them needs to be analyzed. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 41

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The postwar boom both enabled displaced integration and was itself fueled by that workforce — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 38; Postwar Europe’s migration had two structurally distinct labor recruitment regimes — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3861; The new immigration was actually a gradual deepening reach into remoter European lands — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 386 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Postwar Europe’s migration had two structurally distinct labor recruitment regimes #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3861
• Postwar migration expanded in phases bounded by the 1973 oil crisis #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3860
• The new immigration was actually a gradual deepening reach into remoter European lands #qualifies (0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 386