This article examines the effects of the 1974 child allowance reform on guest worker families in West Germany. As part of a wider reform, West Germany implemented a two-tiered system of child allowances whereby migrant parents received more money for children who lived in the European Economic Community (EEC) than for children who lived outside the EEC. Migrants protested the reform and with it the assumptions of the guest worker programme. However, these parents had to contend with a popular narrative whereby foreign parents who brought their children to West Germany after the reform were in fact irresponsible ‘welfare migrants’ who placed their desire for financial gain over their children's need for a stable environment. The idea that this specific welfare reform had been the trigger for large-scale family migration not only discouraged further investigation of the causes of family migration but was also used to support new restrictions on that migration.

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“客工子女的入侵”：西德的福利改革与家庭移民的污名化

本文考察了 1974 年儿童津贴改革对西德客工家庭的影响。作为更广泛改革的一部分，西德实施了两级儿童津贴制度，移民父母为居住在欧洲经济共同体 (EEC) 内的儿童比居住在欧洲经济共同体 (EEC) 以外的儿童获得更多的钱。移民抗议改革以及随之而来的客工计划的假设。然而，这些父母不得不与一种流行的说法作斗争，即改革后将孩子带到西德的外国父母实际上是不负责任的“福利移民”，他们将获得经济利益的愿望置于孩子对稳定环境的需要之上。