The others and we

relationships between Germans and non-Germans from the point of view of foreigners living in Germany

Steffen Kühnel

Jürgen Leibold

pp. 143-162

in: Richard Alba, Peter Schmidt, Martina Wasmer (eds), Germans or foreigners?, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Abstract

Analyses of the relations between Germans and foreigners in the FRG remain incomplete insofar as they exclusively consider the point of view of Germans. Nevertheless, in spite of the multiple surveys that have asked for the attitudes of Germans toward foreigners, there are only a few surveys where the opinions and attitudes of foreigners are also measured. One of these is the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) program. Since 1991, respondents of ALLBUS include both German and foreign residents.¹