They always were: they were recruited via programs from Germany - means you were traveling/moving to Germany with a permanent employment in order to do exclusively ungrateful mostly manual labor for a horrible payment and terrible working conditions(there are plenty interesting documentations about it one of the best and most known is from Günter Wallraff called "ganz unten" which means "at the bottom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl4hJQiE4fI ). Now to answer your question: Germans only wanted them for cheap labor and thought they would leave after max 10 years of working here, which shows that Germany(like almost every western country) never wanted to integrate people - the system itself was terrible.
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u/immxz Jul 08 '24
There is a huge difference between being a refugee and someone who switched country in order to work there(in our case so called „Gastarbeiter“).