Page 44 - Hussein Revivalism14
P. 44
Reportorld
W
policies to meet the specific
demands of Muslim immigrants. The practice of Islam has been almost
Where as, for the past few
years, the practice of Islam invisible to mainstream society.
has been almost invisible to
mainstream society, Muslims mentioned countries. estimate that there are
are increasingly demanding The migratory movements of 700,000 German pupils
their right to practise their foreign labour to the Federal with a Muslim background
religion openly and articulate Republic of Germany were currently in school and higher
their interests through the a result of a combination of education in Germany. The
construction of mosques and different push and pull factors. latest PISA studies provide
Islamic cemeteries and the Rapid population growth evidence that immigrants and
celebration of religious holidays, in Islamic Mediterranean children of immigrants do not
among other matters. (1) countries was coupled with perform as well in German
Muslims first came to Germany rising unemployment caused by schools as those with German
in large numbers with the the increasing use of modern backgrounds. They are much
economic upturn in the mid machinery and equipment more likely to be in the lower
1950s and the resulting in the agricultural sector that division schools of the German
necessity to compensate for made large numbers of workers three fold school system and
the structurally conditioned redundant, who could not be to leave education without a
domestic labour shortage by sufficiently absorbed by other diploma. In German schools,
recruiting foreign workers. economic sectors. This became three times as many of those
Recruitment agreements were a push factor for those who pupils who do not hold German
signed with Turkey in 1961, were also disposed to the pull passports do not advance
with Morocco in 1963, and with factor of the need in Western beyond Hauptschule (lower
Tunisia in 1965. Consequently, European industries for a secondary school) into further
the largest group of Muslims cheap, readily available labour or higher education,compared
that have emigrated to Germany force. to those children with German
so far have been recruited Official statistics, which only passports. (2)
systematically from the above- refer to foreign students, German practice is to provide
44 Hussein Revivalism
