- Immigration concerns in Europe
- Population increase in Europe is fueled by immigration from other regions of the world, a trend disliked by many Europeans
- Biggest fear is that the host country's culture will be lost , because of immigrants:
- adhere to different regions
- speak different languages
- practice different food and other cultural habit
- Hostility to immigrants became a central plank of some political parties in many European countries
- immigrants blamed for crime, unemployment rate and high welfare cost
- Characteristics of Migrants
- Ravenstein noted
- Most long-distance migrants are male
- Most long-distance migrants are adult individuals rather than families with children
- Most long-distance migrants are young adults seeking work rather than children or elderly people
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