Gæstearbejdernes historie er også en del af Danmarks historie

Resumé

The history of immigrant workers
From the late 1960s Turkish immigrant workers were still
more common in Denmark, where they typically were employed
in the heavy industry, in slaughter houses, construction
sites and other dirty jobs. The first generations were
men, wanting to earn money to send home to their family
in Anatolia. They went to where the jobs were, and the men
typically lived together in run-down flats with simple furniture.
The Turkish men were by far the largest group of immigrant
workers. From the mid-70s on still more of them settled
down in Denmark with their families. Today the Turkish
immigrants and their descendants constitute around 60.000
persons making them the largest foreign group in Denmark.
From summer 2015 a flat depicting how six Turkish men
could live in Denmark, can be visited in one of the houses in
the museum’s 1974-district.
Their history will be told as an integral part of how Denmark
was in the 1970s – and an important group of people
will now also be part of Den Gamle By’s storytelling.