Migras arriving in Europe are a more diverse population than in the United States, according to a study released in November 2019 by the nonpartisan Pew Research Ceer, the first European snapshot of unauthorized immigras across Europe in more than a decade.
The numbers of people fleeing violence in Africa and the Middle East and traveling to Europe has eased somewhat since 2015, when a record number of asylum-seekers – about 1.6 million – eered member couries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developme. More than 11,000 people have journeyed across the Mediterranean in the first six weeks of 2020, according to the United Nations, a far smaller pace of growth than in rece years.
Couries That Accept the Most Migras
The United States
The United Kingdom
The Netherlands
Sweden
The United States
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The US accepted 1,127,200 permane migras in 2017, remaining the top coury for immigration despite recording a 5% drop from 2016. This number measures lawful permane reside status graed and does not include migration to the US by other means. These new immigras brought the eire US foreign-born population to more than 13% of the total population.
In 2015, the US admitted 69,920 refugees, unchanged from the previous year. In 2017, however, the number of refugee admissions dropped sharply, according to the George W. Bush Presideial Ceer, which cited State Departme data. It was the lowest figure since 2002. Preside Donald Trump has issued a number of executive orders affecting immigration policy in rece mohs, including orders aimed at strengthening border security and immigration law enforceme, and improving screenings of those seeking admission to the US
Germany
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Germany accepted 860,100 permane immigras in 2017, according to the OECD, a dramatic 18% drop from 2016, even as the issue affects German domestic politics. Most immigras came from Romania, Syria, Poland and Bulgaria. In 2016 roughly 23% of the population had an immigra background, meaning either they or one of their pares was born without German citizenship.
By corast, the number of first-time asylum applications fell sharply in 2017 from the previous year – from 722,000 to just under 200,000. Applicas came primarily from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea and Iran.
Many migras currely traveling to and through Europe hope to reach Germany because of its wealth and job opportunities. Germany has tried to make it easier for asylum-seekers to eer the workforce as its native population ages, with the lowest unemployme rate since reunification in 1990.
The United Kingdom
The UK accepted 342,200 permane immigras in 2016, a drop of 3% from 2016. The largest group of non-British long-term immigras that flowed io the UK in 2016 came from Romania, accouing for about 12% of the total. Such represeation is likely to change, however, following the major UK policy issue in 2016: the vote to leave the EU – a decision known as Brexit – in which concerns over immigration played a key role. India, China and Poland also provided many immigras to the UK
In 2017, 33,320 people filed for asylum in the UK, extending a decline in applications that began in 2016. The UK has been somewhat insulated from the migra crisis enveloping Europe because it is separated from the rest of Europe’s land mass by the English Channel
Spain
Spain accepted 324,100 permane immigras in 2017, an increase of 8% from the previous year. In 2015, the coury experienced its first year of positive net migration since the onset of the global financial crisis.
Iernational protection applications in Spain jumped 63% in 2017 to 25,270, a new record. To handle the influx, the coury has strengthened its asylum and reception system by increasing funding and facilities and reforming its system for handling unaccompanied foreign minors.
Canada
Canada accepted 286,500 permane immigras in 2017, a 3% decrease from the coury’s record of 296,400 in the previous year. The number of economic immigras in 2017 increased by 2% from the previous year, to 159,000. The category includes skilled workers and caregivers. Immigration is expected to coinue in Canada at record levels in the coming years, with the planned iake for 2020 set to be around 340,000.
The number of refugees accepted in 2017 was 41,500, down 30% from 2016. The number of new asylum requests in 2017, however, more than doubled from the previous year, reaching a total of 50,470. The overall influx has put a strain on authorities, although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists refugees will remain welcome in Canada.
France
France received 258,900 permane immigras in 2017, the same figure as the previous year. In 2015, the coury graed 217,500 new residence permits to non-EU nationals. A third were North African, and more than a fifth sub-Saharan African. Although just 20,500 new residence permits were issued for work reasons, labor migration increased by 8 perce in 2015.
The 2017 presideial election pitted the ai-immigration, ai-EU. Marine Le Pen against the progressive Emmanuel Macron in a race that resembled the 2016 elections in the US and the UK In the end, Macron’s pro-immigration party won out, although his stance on the importance of refugee aid has been less firm. France received about 91,070 applications for asylum in 2016, up nearly 20 perce from the previous year. The figure set a new record for applications. Most applications come from Sudan, Afghanistan and Haiti.
Australia
Australia accepted 218,100 permane immigras in 2017, a drop of 4% from 2016 and 37,000 fewer than the record in 2013. Most immigras came from India, followed by China and the UK
Australia received 35,170 new requests for asylum in 2017, according to the OECD, up from slightly more than 27,000 the previous year. Asylum-seekers and refugees primarily come from Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Australia’s coroversial refugee policy involves paying small island states Nauru and Papua New Guinea to house migras in conditions condemned by human rights groups.
Australia refuses to settle asylum-seekers who attempt to arrive by boat. In 2016 in a deal struck with the US, Canberra announced it would accept an unspecified number of refugees from a US-led program in Costa Rica, and the US said it would take a limited number of refugees rejected by Australia. US Preside Donald Trump initially criticized the plan, made by former Preside Barack Obama, but US officials later said the arrangeme will be honored.
Italy
Italy accepted 216,900 permane immigras in 2017, a 2% increase from 216. The total number of foreign nationals living in the coury has surpassed 5 million. A third were born in the EU, while the majority of non-EU nationals came from Romania, Albania, Morocco, China and Ukraine. After family reunification, humanitarian protection accoued for the largest share of new permits graed, at 28 perce.
A froline state for arriving refugees, Italy is providing a case study of refugees’ desires for a better life balanced against couries struggling to care for people rescued in the Mediterranean and brought to its shores. There were 126,550 asylum applications in 2017, extending a trend of annual increases since 2010.
The Netherlands
The Netherlands accepted 141,500 permane immigras in 2016, a 2% increase from the previous year.
Requests for asylum coinued its downward trend in 2017, with the coury receiving 16,090 new applications last year, nearly 20% fewer than in 2016. The coury received a record 43,100 requests for asylum in 2015.
In the 2017 election, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte soundly defeated the populist Geert Wilders, known for his ai-immigration and ai-Islam platform. Still, a Dutch court ruled that the governme cannot be legally compelled to take in more migras, as dictated by the 2015 EU agreeme.
Sweden
Sweden accepted 132,200 permane immigras in 2017, a 15% decrease from 2016. Net migration to the coury, a figure derived after subtracting people leaving the coury, reached a record 117,000 in 2016.
By corast, the number of new requests from asylum seekers has declined in the coury in rece years, according to the OECD. There were 22,190 applications for asylum in 2017, down from 22,300 in 2016 and the record 156,460 requests in 2015, a figure that stirred growing calls in the coury to alter its policies for accepting refugees and asylum-seekers. A global survey released in 2016 ranked Sweden as the best coury to be an economic immigra.
