The author analyses in her contribution the position and protection of workers who included themselves after World War II as Yugoslavs (Slovenes) in the international labour market, more precisely of those who went for work to the Federal Republic of Germany. In the first part of the contribution, she focuses on the normative level established by international agreements, and in the second on the implementation of the appointed in practice whereat she points out the partition of Germany into federal provinces, and the differences between them. Thus, she also attempts to answer the questions whether the workers coming to work in the FRG were treated as people with all dimensions of everyday life, or the FRG migration policy reduced them to merely workers – as well on normative level as in everyday life.