Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-42).
English and German.
"The article is based on three conference papers on socio-economic and political rights of non-citizens and of minority groups in Germany and Western Europe, presented at the Seventh Conference of Europeanists in Washington, D.C., March 23-25, at the annual Conference of the Law & Society Association in Berkeley, Cal., May 31-June 3, and at the Fourteenth Conference of the German Studies Association in Buffalo, N.Y., Oct. 4-7, 1990."