Immigration | bpb.de

Australia’s and New Zealand’s history has been interwoven with immigration: of aboriginal Australians and Māori, European settlers and, more recently, of people from Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Greece has traditionally been an emigration country. This changed in the 1970s when immigration started to outnumber emigration. However, Greece first started to create a legal framework for the…

Traditionally Ireland has been a country marked by a declining population and high rates of emigration. Within the last two decades this situation has reversed dramatically. Immigration has increased…

With almost half of its total resident population either born in a foreign country or the child of such a person, Australia is one of the world´s quintessential immigration countries.

Switzerland has long failed to recognize the fact that it is a country of immigration. Most immigrants come from the neighboring countries of Italy and Germany.

Western Europe is an important destination for international migrants. With Germany, the region contains one of the countries with the highest number of international migrants in the world.