{"id":197414,"date":"2019-11-05T08:41:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T08:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197414"},"modified":"2019-11-08T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T07:48:56","slug":"one-in-three-people-in-germany-will-have-migrant-roots-in-only-2-decades-researcher-predicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197414","title":{"rendered":"ONE in THREE people in Germany will have migrant roots in only 2 decades, researcher predicts"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT \u2013 Nov 4, 2019<\/h1>\n
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German police stand in front of migrants waiting to cross into Germany from Austria in 2016. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

In as little as 20 years, more than 30 percent of people living in Germany will have foreign backgrounds, a migration expert has calculated, estimating that the percentage could be double in larger cities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Herbert Bruecker, who heads the migration research department at the Federal Institute for Employment Research (IAB), told German daily Die Welt that about 35 percent of the population will have a migrant background or be a migrant themselves by the year 2040. The figure includes anyone who was not born in Germany or who has at least one parent who is not a German citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n

The researcher said that in big cities such as Frankfurt, people with migrant backgrounds will make up 65-70 percent of the population. Bruecker argued that Germany\u2019s economic viability will depend on drawing in migrants, but cautioned that they should be highly-skilled workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The demographic forecast might seem extreme, but actually isn\u2019t far off from the current statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bruecker said about a quarter of people in Germany already come from a migrant background. Last year, a \u2018micro-census\u2019 found that among the 19.3 million people with immigrant roots, 51 percent were German citizens and 49 percent were foreigners.<\/span><\/p>\n

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has seen her political tenure besieged by anti-immigrant movements, amid growing anger over her open-door migrant policy. Over the past five years, Germany has fallen victim to a string of terrorist attacks and other crimes committed by migrants from North Africa and the Middle East. At the same time, refugee shelters and asylum seekers also became a target of extremists.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Western Europe\u2019s demography to be dramatically transformed as a result of Merkel’s ‘open border’ policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197416,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197414\/revisions\/197416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}