Imigration Research Paper

Index

1        Introduction        

2        Immigration        

2.1        What is Immigration?        

2.2        The situation of immigrants        

2.3        The situation of the employer        

2.4        Cost for the government        

3        Discussion        

3.1        disadvantages of Immigration        

3.1.1        Negative impact on countries of origin        

3.1.2        Integration difficulties        

3.1.3        Non-skilled workers        

3.2        advantages of Immigration        

3.2.1        financial support for counties of origin        

3.2.2        Job vacancies can be ended        

3.2.3        shared values        

3.2.4        globalized world        

4        Resent study of the Bertelsmann foundation        

5        Conclusion        

6        References        

1. Introduction

Immigration is one of the most discussed topics in recent decades. Critics of immigration say immigration is a threat to the social cohesion. Supporter emphasize the benefits that arise for the sending and receiving countries. The truth is, as so often in between: immigration brings advantages and disadvantages. This will be presented below.

1. Immigration

1. What is Immigration?

The Cambridge Dictionary defines immigration as followed: the act of someone coming to live in a different country (1) 

Generally speaking the movement of people from one country to another country. Immigration has happen since historical times, that’s how counties developed and how they are built over thousands of years. Poverty or wars are often one the main reasons for immigration. People seek for better opportunities in education or career. They are searching for a new and better live, which is most not possible in their home country.

1. The situation of immigrants

Immigrants have often problems in their new host country. They have difficulties finding a job due the barrier of language or not unrecognized educational graduations. But often the low skilled workers have trouble finding a job in the new homeland. It is essential to find a new job to speak and understand the national language. In addition the most immigrants need money to build their new life so they need immediately a job, but because of the lack of the expected language skills they take almost every job they could get. Even though the immigrants not always can feed their families with the money they earn. That’s why many immigrants need to receive social benefits from the host country.

1. The situation of the employer

Productivity of an employee is crucial for an employer. The training period of new worker needs to be short, which is not always easy to predict for an employer if he employs an immigrant. It is not obvious for an employer to compare the working skills of an immigrant to the working skills of the local population. Together with the necessary qualifications which an immigrant needs for coping with his duties. Immigrants get discriminated because of the information gap. The problem is that often foreign ethnic groups are negatively stereotyped and therefore a devaluation of immigrant. A key qualification is the understanding and the speaking of the national language. When the employee masters this language barrier, the employee still has doubts in the first months of employment. It is shown that an employer is not interested in the professional training. In Addition the risk of termination is higher among immigrants. (2)

1. Cost for the government

The last reliable survey on the question of what immigration costs, dates back to 2009. At the time, in Germany 32 percent of people with immigrant backgrounds tax-financed transfer benefits - for example unemployment benefit, housing benefit or child support. Among the locals, the proportion was 20 percent, which is significantly lower. (3) In addition not only cost for tax-financed transfer benefits, but also to costs for education, integration and additional costs for the infrastructure have to be paid by the government. This indicates that the cost for the government are extremely high.