I'm not surprised she was treated like this. One of the World leader's the Alt-Right (Bannon et al) hate the most is Merkel. They see her as complicit in sinking European civilization with her attitude towards immigration and refugees. There are other issues as well but these ones are significant in their thinking as well.
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Germany's talents leave the country in droves
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Dorothea Siems Published on 10.03.2015 | Lesedauer: 4 minutes
German academics are dissatisfied with this, many are leaving. They are longing for a career and a better living standard. They even accept that the price is high.
Germany is currently experiencing an immigration boom.Only the US attracts more people from all over the world. At the same time, the Germans are becoming increasingly mobile. Nearly four million German emigrants now live outside the Federal Republic. As a study by the German Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration shows, the desire for a career and a better standard of living is driving people far away. Often family reasons also play a role.
About 1.5 million Germans have turned their backs on their homeland between 2004 and 2013. As a rule, they are academics or students who
dare to go abroad - talents that are becoming increasingly scarce in the local economy. Even if the majority of them return sooner or later to Germany, the migration balance has always been negative since the 1960s.
Each year the Federal Republic loses about 25,000 German nationals. Other countries, such as Ireland and Canada, were more concerned than Germany to make their landsfolks fit for their return, the researchers noted in the study.
European freedom of movement promotes emigration
By far the most important destination for
German emigrants has been
Switzerland . The neighboring country attracted more than 200,000 citizens in the past decade. The USA and Austria follow. When the Germans used to prefer classical immigration countries like the United States,
Canada or Australia, European countries are now playing an increasingly important role.
The reason for the shift is the European free movement of workers. The single currency also facilitates the move to another Member State. The EU also promotes urban partnerships and university exchange programs, which have grown enormously in importance.
As a survey among emigrants and returnees shows, there is usually more than one motive for the hike. 70 per cent of the emigrants want to gain new experience.Professional reasons are most frequently mentioned. About every second is about being close to the partner or the family. The desire for a higher income or standard of living follows just behind it. More than 40 per cent of the emigrants drive dissatisfaction with life in Germany into the distance. Especially Germans with foreign roots often call this last reason as main motif.
Experience abroad brings permanently higher income
The survey shows that the stay abroad usually promotes career. Most emigrants deserve much more than before. Especially for the highly qualified, this "lunge effect" remains after a return. The study shows that women go abroad as often as men. However, they rarely return home. Another gender difference: Women are more likely to continue for family reasons, while men call professional motives.
From the point of view of the affected persons, however, emigration does not only have advantages. Although the experience abroad often uses the career and leads to a permanently higher income. But private life often suffers. Thus, many emigrants lack family networks or friendships. This disadvantage, however, decreases with the duration of the stay abroad. The longer the people live far from the home, the less is the return probability, the study notes.
Unlike in earlier times, emigrants do not usually leave their tents forever in their homeland, but are planning a temporary stay abroad from the outset. Every second German living far from home has been gone for less than five years. Many employees are posted by their company for a certain period of time. Foreign students also usually plan to return. In total, 41 per cent of Germans living abroad said they would return home. About a third want to stay in the target country. A quarter is undecided.
Also the return is by no means to be regarded as failure, stressed the researchers.On the contrary, international mobility is nowadays not usually applied in the long term. According to study, there is an increasing proportion of mobile people among the Germans. They are not only well educated, but are usually also from educationally close parents' houses.
Many are already collecting their first foreign experiences as pupils or students. As the survey shows, most emigrants have left their home several times for a certain time. As returnees, these workers are particularly valuable to the local economy. "International mobile will return with new experiences, skills and networks," said Cornelia Schu of the German Council for Integration and Migration. The researcher therefore pleads for a change of perspective: "Emigration should not be perceived as one-sided loss, but also as an opportunity."
However, the authors advocate that potential German returnees be more closely scrutinized than before. Here Germany can learn from other countries like Ireland or Canada. It is possible to use returne programs and the development of networks, which make it easier for emigrants to keep contact with their homeland. Both politics and the economy are in demand here. Moreover, the chances of international mobility should also be opened to socially vulnerable people, of which too few have yet ventured abroad.