More immigration from East Asia to Europe

What if the state of Europe more widely opened in the 70s on immigration from East Asia (for example, Germany gastarbeiter imported from China instead of Turkey)?
 
Simply put, there weren't nearly enough connections between East Asia and western Europe to make any migration especially notable.

In the 1950s and 1960s, recovering western European economies drew their migrant labour from neighbouring countries. At first, northwestern Europe began to draw migrants from Italy, but then as Italy caught up to its EEC partners they began to draw their migrants from slightly further neighbours, from the Mediterranean fringe of Europe (Portugal, Spain, Yugoslavia, Greece), then from North Africa and Turkey. (In the special case of West Germany, it was also a destination for substantial numbers of migrants from East Germany as well as Poland.)

Did politics play a role in this? Yes. Cold War frontiers probably limited the potential flow of migrants from countries beyond the Iron Curtain. East Germany's viability was threatened by an open frontier with the West, while many of the migrants from Poland were either ethnically German or could be identified as ethnically German. In a timeline where Turkey was a Soviet satellite state but (say) Romania was at least as independent and neutral as Tito if not outright pro-Western, I'd expect that Romanian migrants would take the place of Turks on European labour markets. Similarly, if Algeria was anchored as a self-governing part of France, then it's at least imaginable that West Germany might look to Algeria before Turkey as a source of unskilled migrants.

East Asia was simply too far afield, too irrelevant to the interests of a Europe that was rebuilding. The collapse of the French, British, and especially Dutch empires in Southeast Asia did see substantial numbers of people--not just colonial expatriates--move to the former metropoles of the empire, but this was a one-time movement. There may have been a continuing trickle of migrants from independent South Vietnam to France, but French influence and interest in the region was so small that it would have made no sense to start up a Vietnamese guest-worker program. West Germany did recruit some tens of thousands of South Koreans, but their numbers were limited by official racism--the entire migration was driven by the desire to put on a show for audiences of Cold War geopolitics, one divided nation helping another.

For European governments to prioritize East Asian migrants in the guest worker area, in short, would have required very different Cold War frontiers and very different policies.

What about after the end of the guest worker era? In the age of mass unemployment in the oil shock era, I really don't think it likely that European governments would have open borders for East Asian migrants. That the most notable influx of East Asian migrants were of Southeast Asian refugees is noteworthy, I think. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, in east-central Europe, education and employment did lead to substantial numbers of Vietnamese guest workers in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, even Poland and Hungary from the 1970s on, but again their numbers were limited.
 
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