Only 32% of the Maltese believe that people of different ethnic origin enrich the national culture, the lowest percentage among the EU’s member states. According to a Eurobarometer study entitled “Discrimination in the EU”, the majority of citizens in all but four member states said that people of different ethnic origin enrich the national culture.
Mehr als 50 Vertreter von Migrantenorganisationen und eine Staatsministerin – ein solches Gespräch ist für Maria Böhmer, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Migration, nicht alltäglich. Umso intensiver gestaltete sich nach Medienberichten der dreistündige Dialog zwischen Böhmer und den Migran-ten-Vertretern.
People in Lithuania complain of long waits for taxis, unrepaired flats and long lines at grocery stores – according to a recent workpermit.com-Report, service industry workers in Lithuania have become a rarity. Facing a low birth rate and a rapidly ageing population, the employee gap in the Lithuanian service sector is growing continuously. In order […]
According to a recent analysis, the number of migrant workers who have registered for work in Scotland has risen enormously in the last two years. 40,000 migrant workers have registered for National Insurance – that’s more than double the number of 15,000 workers counted two years before. Additionally,
Following new government plans, asylum seekers and refugees or low earners from ethnic minority backgrounds will have to pay for English language lessons in the United Kingdom – an offer that was free of charge up to now for integrative reasons.
The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) has presented its Annual Report 2006. The report looked at racial discrimination and racist crime data and found out that migrants and ethnic minorities remain discriminated against across the EU in employment, education and housing. However,
Felix Wittig, head of communications at Ungleich Besser Diversity Consulting, is experiencing the world’s diversity for himself during a six-month around-the-world sabbatical. Every month, he shares his experiences with EMEA Diversity readers.
Ireland, often described as the most globalised country in the world, now has it’s own magazine concerning Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review. The journal, named “translocations”, has gone online at <http://www.imrstr.dcu.ie/firstissue/> The journal aims to provide a platform through which to develop research and discussion on migration, it also informs about ‘race’, integration […]
According to a recent newspaper article, immigrants play a major role in boosting the Greece’s economic growth. Statistics from the Bank of Greece revealed that the migrants’ collective annual consumption exceeds 2 billion Euros which is about the same as for native Greeks. Furthermore, immigrants account for 12 percent of contributors to the country’s largest […]
Sweden democrat leaders in the city council of Malmö have proposed to pay immigrants if they leave the country. The party has proposed a range of policies to clamp down on immigrants in the Skåne region, including a total ban on immigration and a stop to publicly funded integration programmes.
