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Valuing diversity: guidance for labour market integration of migrants

Figure 10 Spain: first residence permits by nationality of third-country citizens
(%), 2011

India, 1.5 Others, 11.3
Algeria, 1.5
Ukraine, 1.6
Russia, 1.8
Senegal, 2.1
Pakistan, 2.9
United States, 3.7 South America, 50.6

China , 5.3

Morocco, 17.9

Source: Eurostat, first residence permits. Online data code [migr_resfirst].

In countries with limited historical connections to some of their most
prominent immigrant communities, language and general culture tend to
constitute issues of concern for integration. Italy is another example of a country
with this type of immigrant profile: over 400 000 northern Africans reside Italy, in
relatively recently formed communities.
We have focused on cases in which the immigrant groups share a certain
cultural and linguistic proximity and those where the departure and receiving
culture do not have significant previous mutual exposure. A third distinction
concerns the existence of long-standing resident communities of foreign origins,
which have established strong social and family networks as well as immigrant-
support organisations in the receiving countries. These communities often have a
high number of children born in the receiving country, which have benefited, from
an integration standpoint, from full educational and training within the host
culture. Germany has around 1.8 million citizens with Turkish origins, in long-
standing communities, spreading to the third generation of residents, most of
these already with German citizenship.

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