More migrants into Jobs, better services in the school: The OECD progress in the Integration of foreigners in Germany was recorded. Challenges remain, especially for low-Skilled workers.
The Organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD) sees “considerable progress” in the Integration of migrants in Germany. In Berlin, the OECD has presented a study according to which, in particular, the educational achievements of migrants and their Integration in the labour market have improved.
“The basic finding for Germany is a very positive,” says Thomas Liebig, an OECD expert for Migration and Integration, in an interview with DW. “There is significant progress, both in terms of the second Generation as for the new immigrants as well as what. Since we are seeing a lot of positive trends.”
The gap is closing
Thus, the share of migrants who have a Job, in the past ten years in Germany, almost eight percent increase, according to the OECD, to 67.3 percent. Twice as strong growth as in the case of Non-migrants. The gap between Germans and migrants in the labour market. This is not in all the industrial countries.
In France, for example, as Germany, the job opportunities of a good deal with a target country of Migration, with long-established, and rather low-skilled immigrants, immigrants and Non-migrants. “Globally, countries such as Canada are particularly good,” says Liebig, “because it has added to the immigrants of Germany, including many refugees have been recorded in recent times, high-skilled labor migrants.”
Reading literacy in the PISA Test increases
In the case of the academic performance of children of migrants. In the PISA Tests for reading skills, they were able to improve between 2006 and 2015, i.e. before the immigration of more than a Million refugees – approximately 50 points to a level of 441 points. A significantly stronger increase than their non-immigrant peers, which improved to 17 points.
“In the financial statements, however, the gap closes only in the case of the higher-Qualified” limits Liebig. “In the case of the low-Skilled in Germany we have, as before, a very large proportion of descendants of immigrants, who have a maximum of a secondary school degree. There has not been done in the last ten years, unfortunately, a lot of.”
Widmann-Mauz: More migrants in the public service
The better achievements of migrants and their descendants in the PISA Test have not done so, even in better grades. Around a quarter of the children of migrants in Germany has neither baccalaureate nor a vocational qualification. Thus, Germany is worse than the OECD and EU countries as a whole.
The Integration of the competent Minister of state Annette Widmann-Mauz wants to change: “We need to be in the recognition of professional qualifications, and strengths, of their rights to exercise,” she says. “It is important to promote the language from the beginning in preschools and schools so that all children have a fair chance. And also the intercultural Opening of the public service must be strongly promoted.”
Thomas Liebig, an OECD expert for Migration and Integration
Currently, about 8.5 percent of the German-born children of migrants are in the public service. In the comparison group of 15 – to 34-Year-olds without a migration background are more than 17 percent.
As a model countries such as Sweden looks Liebig here. “In the second Generation countries, which have operated for many years a very intensive and active integration policy, relatively well.” So also, the employment rate of women with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden is particularly high.
Migrants experience less discrimination
In addition, only eleven percent of migrants in Germany, reports of discrimination on the basis of their origin, skin color or Religion. Ten years ago, there were still more than 15 percent. “For some, perhaps surprisingly,” says Liebig. “Since Germany is now in the midfield and not in the top group, i.e. the countries with particularly a lot of the perceived discrimination.”
In addition, Migration would be perceived in Germany are more positive than ten years ago, Liebig. There are, however, Migration in General, and not to asylum seekers. Nearly 13 million people living in 2017 in Germany, was born, according to the study abroad. Approximately 16 percent of the total population. Thus, Germany is in the upper middle of the industrial countries.