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The employment rate of the immigrant population in Germany is currently 70% - this is more than in most other comparable EU countries and the highest value achieved to date. The immigration of 11 million people of working age in Germany has mitigated the worsening shortage of skilled workers. (p. 9)
The term second-generation immigrant attracts criticism due to it being an oxymoron. Namely, critics say, a "second-generation immigrant" is not an immigrant, since being "second-generation" means that the person is born in the country and the person's parents are the immigrants in question. Generation labeling immigrants is further complicated ...
Offering fake immigrant visas in order to make it impossible for employees to return to their countries. In many countries there is a lack of prosecution of this crimes, since these countries obtain benefits and taxes paid by these companies that benefit the economies and also because of the current shortage of workers. [289] [290] [291] [292]
People move abroad for many different reasons. [44] An understanding of what makes people move is the first step in the expatriation process. People could be ‘pushed’ away as a reaction to specific socio-economic or political conditions in the home country, or ‘pulled’ towards a destination country because of better work opportunities ...
Word is derived from Hindi 'chapata' meaning 'flat', used to refer to flat nose and facial features Chapetón / chapetona (Latin America) adjective and noun: a newly-arrived person from Europe. [6] Chapín (Central America) someone from Guatemala. [7] Charnego / charnega (Spain) a southern Spanish immigrant who has settled in Catalonia, Spain. [8]
This means that sociologists define people who move to (in the case of immigrants migrating to the United States) the United States from another society, as adults, as "first generation" immigrants, their American-born children as "second generation" immigrants, and their children in turn as "third generation" immigrants. [8]
Former President Donald Trump drew fierce backlash this weekend for his latest attack on undocumented immigrants. Two words in particular prompted outrage on social media: “Bloody story.”
If an immigrant became a U.S. citizen, he or she had the ability to obtain non-quota visas for more family members, but as a resident that number was capped annually. Additionally, the Immigration Act of 1924 formally opened the door to chain migration from the entire western hemisphere, placing that group under non-quota status.