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Migration Report 2010 ,
On 14 December 2011, the Federal Cabinet adopted the Migration Report 2010, which was drafted by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. On the basis of the data available, the Report provides an overview of migration events in Germany, detailing the various types of migration, and supplies information on the structure of the foreign population, as well as of the population with a migration background.
The main events in brief:
- Germany remains one of Europe’s principal migration destinations.
- There was an eleven-percent year-on-year increase in the number of new arrivals in 2010.
- The number of people leaving the country fell at the same time.
- The number of skilled workers arriving rose.
- Immigrants’ main country of origin was Poland, as in the previous years.
- The number of new arrivals from Romania and Bulgaria has increased markedly since their accession to the EU at the beginning of 2007.
- Once again, there were more people leaving for Turkey than arriving from that country.
- There were almost 50 percent more asylum-seekers in comparison to 2009.
- The number of persons who have acquired their entitlement to study outside Germany taking up their studies in Germany rose once again.
- Immigration by ethnic German resettlers and their family members continued to fall.
- Emigration by Germans also fell in 2010.
The structure of the Migration Report 2010 is similar to that of last year's Report. More detail than in the previous Report was given regarding migration events in a European comparison in order to do justice to the increasing Europeanisation of developments in migration policy.
The Federal Government's Migration Report is drafted on an annual basis on behalf of the Bundestag.
The report is only available in German.