Immigration

Ingezonden door LVB op 2006-04-09 22:31

University of Sheffield has an interesting map of the world, where countries are resized in proportion to their net immigration figure. It is part of their World Mapper Project.



The US, western Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula are dramatically larger. Italy can hardly be seen. And what is that large bubble in Northern Africa? Lybia? The Netherlands and Belgium are each almost as large as the UK, which can come as a surprise, as sometimes illegal immigrants are caught on trucks in Belgium while on their way to the UK, which seems like the promised land for a lot of (illegal) immigrants.

But of course, this map doesn't tell everything. It only shows legal immigration, not the illegal part. Furthermore, in the US and on the Arabian peninsula, the needs of the economy are at the center of sophisticated immigration policies. In Western Europe, immigration is mostly centered around political asylum of refugees, and on the reunification of families. [Hat tip: e-mail from Matthias Storme]

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#19601

Dieter Verhofstadt

vrijdag, 28 april, 2006 - 12:31

 

The problem with this map is that its intended effect, to strikingly visualize immigration, is partly missed, because our reference for the map is the size of the country's surface, not the size of its population. In other words, if the map would reflect actual population, it would also deform the familiar shape of the world map.

One example is Australia: the idea you get from this map is that "immigration in Australia is moderate (= comparable to the country's size)" whereas immigration is huge. If we can believe the map, the immigration into Australia is about 8 times the one in Brazil, which has a population about 20 times larger than Australia

#19321

Jöe

zaterdag, 22 april, 2006 - 21:06

 

Remark the outflux out of Russia, especially a braindrain. And recently I heard a story about the president of Lithuania begging spectators on TV to stay in the country.

#19184

Govaert Jan

woensdag, 19 april, 2006 - 16:46

 

The arabian immigrants of the Mahreb and Turkey of the first generation in Belgium
have also been moved over the years noiseless into a state of some sort
of political refugees and reunification from abroad and in a permanent state of unemployement.
Therefore I say, if all those immigrants where replaced once in time by
the sort of relay economic driven immigrants with a green card like they have in the US,
the balance of money in our social security system would be enormously.

#18948

Nicolas Raemdonck

dinsdag, 11 april, 2006 - 02:29

 

Lyba knows a lot of African immigrants because it is waiting station to get in the EU. A lot of "refugees"camps are situated in the desert.

Another peculiar fact is the large amount of immigrants going to the mideast. That are mostly people of the far east who work on the docks or in the oil industries.

#18932

Briggs

maandag, 10 april, 2006 - 12:09

 

and fake political asylum of economic refugees...taking the larger cut.