11 per cent of MPs in the new Bundestag have a migration background

83 MPs with a migration background will sit in the newly elected German Bundestag, the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany. That is 11.3 per cent of all 735 MPs, compared to only 8.2 per cent in the last election in 2017. This is the result of research by the “Mediendienst Integration”. Migration background means when a person himself or at least one parent does not have German citizenship by birth, that is how the statisticians define it. According to this definition, 26 per cent of the German population have a migration background. Of the parties, “Die Linke” has… Read More

First study about „Russian-Germans”: well-integrated

Since the end of the 1980s, 2.7 million people from countries of the former Soviet Union have migrated to Germany. With about 3.5 million, they form the largest immigrant group today. However, little is known about their situation. The migrant researcher Jannis Panagiotidis (University of Osnabrück, University of Wien since 1/8/2021) has recently published the first comprehensive study about this population group, which he calls “post-soviet migrants”. Incidentally, the current German tennis Olympia winner Alexander Zverev also belongs to that group. The largest part of the post-soviet migrants is from Russia and Kazakhstan, but also from Ukraine. One part of… Read More

Info-Portal Migration und Gesundheit

Auf 40 verschiedenen Sprachen bietet die Homepage „Migration und Gesundheit“ Informationen zum Thema Gesundheit an. Unter www.migration-gesundheit.bund.de gibt es vier Hauptthemen: Das Gesundheitswesen in Deutschland mit Informationen über Krankenversicherung, Notfall, Ärzte, Krankenhaus, Organspende etc. Die Vorsorge mit Informationen über Impfungen, Frauengesundheit, oder seelische und körperliche Gesundheit allgemein. Die Pflege von alten Menschen oder Menschen mit einer körperlichen, geistigen oder psychischen Beeinträchtigung. Und das Thema Sucht und Drogen, bei dem es um Alkohol und Drogen, Internet-, oder Glücksspielsucht geht.

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