abstract:Gastarbeiter (plural, "Gastarbeiter") () is German for "guest worker" (literal translation). It refers to foreign or migrant workers who had moved to West Germany (BRD) mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker programme (Gastarbeiterprogramm).
Only outsiders who contemptuously regard ordinary Albanians in Macedonia as a monolithic herd incapable of expressing anything other than unanimity could believe that turnouts of 100% all voting one way are credible, not least in a region which sends so many Gastarbeiter to Germany.