as its contemporary policies in regard to Turkish migration make it exceptionally distinct when studying population movement through comparative studies.8 To date, there has been much academic focus on immigration policies in regard to internal European migration in post-Germany; however, without examining the immigration options of Non-EU citizens in Germany there will be a fundamental lack of understanding of these policies. Methods of agreement and difference using prototypical European integration models as well as the Turkish migrant worker model will be used to contrast and isolate the extent of causality. Moreover, different case studies will be analysed for the purposes of process tracing and understanding the evolving Indo-German dynamic.
II. THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF DIASPORAS
India has a complex and diverse migration history. Since the nine-teenth century, ethnic Indians have established communities on every continent including islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific oceans. As expected, this diverse and far-reaching diaspora has created intricate inter-country relations. This research touches on just one manifestation - the Indo-German histiography. Understanding the overlap between these countries' domestic politics reveals a surprising constructive history.
German soldiers, as early as the eighteenth century, wrote articles and journals lauding the philosophies and cultural arrangements of Indians; and, as Gottschlich shows, at the macroeconomic level the Indo-German trade relationship was one of the fastest growing bilateral trade regimes in the world:
8. Freeman and Ôgelman 1998
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