Due to Globalization and the free market, the people have begun to think in a world without barriers and free movement. Media and the information sharing, for example, circulate “freely” around the world ( a guy in India can watch the Ecuador news in the net for example). These can be the main external motivations for people to choose to migrate to another country.
The IOM states that the total number of international migrants has increased over the last 10 years from an estimated 150 million in 2000 to 214 million persons today[1].
It is also important to mention that are many personal reasons to explain why people decide to migrate inside or outside their country, such as: the search for job opportunities, displacement for war, family reunion, among others.
According to the IOM among the nations that receive large flow of immigrants is Germany.
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Source Statishes Bundesamt Deutschland |
The graphic shows that the Turkish people are the main immigrants to this country, followed by the Italian and the Polish. Most of the immigrants work as unskilled laborers, as Germany recruited workers in particular for simple activities. Studies have revealed that immigrant families in Germany have difficulty climbing the social ladder or improving their economic situation. Nonetheless, over the past two decades progress has been made with regard to integration: Acquiring German citizenship was facilitated by law, contacts between immigrants and Germans are closer, and there is more widespread acceptance of ethnic cultural variety. And the immigration law that came into power in 2005 provides for the first time an all-embracing legal framework that considers all aspects of immigration policy[2]
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References
Facts about Germany: Immigration and Integration." Facts about Germany: Home. Web. 12 May 2011. <http://www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de/en/society/main-content-08/immigration-and-integration.html>.
Statishes Bundesamt Deutschland <http://www.destatis.de>
Projects, ThemeFeatured. "Facts & Figures." IOM. Web. 12 May 2011. <http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/about-migration/facts-and-figures/lang/en>.
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