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Valuing diversity: guidance for labour market integration of migrants

Figure 11 Origins of foreign-born Italy (%), 2011

Others, 16.1
Romania, 27.2
Others northern
Africa, 6.7

Poland, 3.7

France, 4.2
Albania, 12.7
China (including
Hong Kong), 5.0
Morocco, 11.8
Ukraine, 5.8
Germany, 6.8

Source: Eurostat, population by country of birth. Online data code: [migr_pop3ctb].

The Moroccan community in Spain should be distinguished from the
Maghrebian communities in France for such reasons. It should also be
distinguished from Turkish communities in Germany, the Netherlands and
Austria, where a history of the community has allowed for the establishment of
stable networks. Such communities already have second generations with the
receiving country’s nationality. Some integration issues may, nevertheless
persist, even among such individuals and be at the root of problems such early
drop-outs or long unemployment periods.

There are also ‘invisible’ communities of third-country immigrants, essentially
from North America. Although this community is significant in a number of
countries across Europe, they belong in general to affluent tiers of society, with
high qualifications, good access to work and business and relative ease in social
integration.
It is also worth noting the increase, in recent years, in the inflow of migrants
from China and Asia in general (OECD, 2012). The effects of this flow are
illustrated by the weight of the Chinese community – 7.7% in the pie-chart of the
foreign-born population structure in Germany in 2011 (Figure 12).

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