EU statistical office showed children of asylum seekers perform better in school and in work
by Emanuele Bonini
Surprise! Immigrants are not a problem. On the contrary, they are a resource. Even precious, according to the latest figures released by Eurostat. Second generation immigrants in the EU are generally well integrated into the labour market and have high educational attainment, even higher compared to the peers of the "hosting nation". That means people whose origins come from another country are more qualified and more skilful and, for such a reason, more competitive.
Criminal nature of immigrants is more and more used in internal political debates, making foreigners one of main social issues in most of the European countries. The United Kingdom linked the Brexit referendum to migration policies, and far-right parties all across the EU are acting against people from outside the EU and even from non-nationals.
In 2014, 82.4% (or 251.7 million individuals) of the EU population aged 15-64 were native born with native background, 11.5% (36.5 million) were foreign-born and 6.1% (18.4 million) were considered as second generation immigrants, as 4.4% (13.3 million) had at least one parent born in the EU and 1.7% (5.1 million) had both parents born outside the EU. Among the EU Member States for which data are available the highest proportions of second generation immigrants in the total resident population were registered in Estonia (21.4%), Latvia (19.1%), Luxembourg (16.2%), France (14.3%), Sweden (11.2%), Belgium (11.0%), Slovenia (10.6%) and Croatia (10.3%).
In 2014, in the EU as a whole, second generation immigrants aged 25-54 with both an EU background and a non-EU background had higher tertiary educational attainment rates (38.5% and 36.2% respectively) than their peers with a native background, for whom the share was 30.9%. Second generation immigrants also had higher shares than first generation immigrants either born in another EU Member State (33.3%) or a non-EU country (29.4%). The proportions of highly educated second generation immigrants were 5 or more percentage points higher than for persons with a native background in Portugal (45.2% vs 23%), Cyprus (62.3% vs 44.7%), Malta (35.1% vs 20.4%), Hungary (35.6% vs 24.9%), the United Kingdom (46.8% vs 37.4%) and Italy (26.7% vs 19.1%). The educational gap was is reflected in work. In 2014, in the EU as a whole, 81.1% of second generation immigrants aged 25-54 with at least one parent born in the EU were employed, compared to the same rate for the native-born with a native background (78.6%, 2.5 pp difference), lower.
Surprise! Immigrants are not a problem. On the contrary, they are a resource. Even precious, according to the latest figures released by Eurostat. Second generation immigrants in the EU are generally well integrated into the labour market and have high educational attainment, even higher compared to the peers of the "hosting nation". That means people whose origins come from another country are more qualified and more skilful and, for such a reason, more competitive.
Criminal nature of immigrants is more and more used in internal political debates, making foreigners one of main social issues in most of the European countries. The United Kingdom linked the Brexit referendum to migration policies, and far-right parties all across the EU are acting against people from outside the EU and even from non-nationals.
In 2014, 82.4% (or 251.7 million individuals) of the EU population aged 15-64 were native born with native background, 11.5% (36.5 million) were foreign-born and 6.1% (18.4 million) were considered as second generation immigrants, as 4.4% (13.3 million) had at least one parent born in the EU and 1.7% (5.1 million) had both parents born outside the EU. Among the EU Member States for which data are available the highest proportions of second generation immigrants in the total resident population were registered in Estonia (21.4%), Latvia (19.1%), Luxembourg (16.2%), France (14.3%), Sweden (11.2%), Belgium (11.0%), Slovenia (10.6%) and Croatia (10.3%).
In 2014, in the EU as a whole, second generation immigrants aged 25-54 with both an EU background and a non-EU background had higher tertiary educational attainment rates (38.5% and 36.2% respectively) than their peers with a native background, for whom the share was 30.9%. Second generation immigrants also had higher shares than first generation immigrants either born in another EU Member State (33.3%) or a non-EU country (29.4%). The proportions of highly educated second generation immigrants were 5 or more percentage points higher than for persons with a native background in Portugal (45.2% vs 23%), Cyprus (62.3% vs 44.7%), Malta (35.1% vs 20.4%), Hungary (35.6% vs 24.9%), the United Kingdom (46.8% vs 37.4%) and Italy (26.7% vs 19.1%). The educational gap was is reflected in work. In 2014, in the EU as a whole, 81.1% of second generation immigrants aged 25-54 with at least one parent born in the EU were employed, compared to the same rate for the native-born with a native background (78.6%, 2.5 pp difference), lower.
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