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Posted by
Sonja, Wednesday,
January 4, 2006
In an interview with the
leftwing/liberal German daily
Frankfurter Rundschau,
migration expert Klaus Bade
paints an unpleasant
migration-picture for Germany:
While immigrants often times
don't fulfill the requirements
to fit in socially and
professionally, more and more
well educated, German-trained
professionals turn their backs
on the country, increasingly
so not only for certain period
of time, but for good, he
says. Two of the reasons he
mentions are the continuingly
unpromising outlook for the
German job market and "absurd
practices within the German
academia," which will soon
drive so many experts abroad
that we can expect a distinct
shortage of trained
professionals in certain
sectors. Among the highly and
very highly qualified experts
Germany is loosing are
IT-professionals, many of whom
migrating to the United
States. Canada is among other
favored countries of
immigration. Predominant among
the emigrants are young,
educated people "in their best
years of earning," Bade
laments. "Germany is on her
way to find herself on the
loser's side of the
competition over the brightest
minds." An additional problem
he contends: While many
second- or third generation
immigrants to Germany are now
leaving the country for better
opportunities abroad, their
parents and grandparents tend
to stay in order to enjoy
their retirement benefits in
Germany." In times of
retirement crisis, this is a
problem that should not be
underestimated", Bade warns.
All in all, he contends, this
is "a thoroughly unpleasant
migration scenario, which
should neither be talked nor
calculated away."http://atlanticreview.org/archives/168-The-Guantanamo-detainee-from-Germany.html
Isabelle Koch
contributed to this article
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