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Immigration as pretext

Donato Ndongo Bidyogo | Many warn that the frivolous treatment of the migration problem will cause the “rejection effect”, with intolerance growing and the increase of racism and xenophobia, fertiliser for supremacist theories and Nazi practices.


Germany fears to lose welfare state to pay refugees

Germany: The Ideological Turn Of Fear

Between July 2015 and July 2018, 1.3 million people have sought asylum in Germany. The three years between the festive welcome to the refugees in Munich railway station and the xenophobic revolt in Chemnitz (Saxony) in September – after the stabbing of a 35 year old German, reportedly by foreigners – have seen an unprecedented renaissance of conservative politics.



Immigration in Germany

Immigration in Germany resurfaces as an opportunity to boost potential growth

Inmigration in Germany is not a new topic. The country is the second most popular migration destination in the world, after the United States. In fact, some 11 million of the people currently living in Germany were actually born elsewhere. The controversial refugee movement and last poor German demographic trends published make immigration resurface as an opportunity to boost German’s potential growth.


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The unlikely eastern European immigration wave within the crisis-ridden Union

CRACOW | By Matthew Shearman | Ahead of the end of immigration controls on Romania and Bulgaria in January 2014, some UK ministers are thinking of running a campaign to deter a repeat of the 2004 “wave” of immigration when eight former communist countries gained EU working rights. But the eurozone crisis makes this prospect less likely.


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US mistreat immigrants at its own peril

Unlike during the 1980s, when skilled immigrants could get green cards in as little as 18 months, today it can take as long as 17 years. Failure to fix this problem, says Wadhwa in an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, is killing American innovation and entrepreneurship.