#migrate germany

[immigrategermany]

Will Germany become the next big immigration destination?

At present, 23 % population of Germany is made up of immigrants and children of immigrants. There is a labor shortage, and as per the reports of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK),  Germany is looking forward to filling 60,000 Jobs a year. There was a record-breaking vacancy number of over 2 million jobs in 2022. Thus, recently the Germany Government has also unveiled a reform in the immigration system by which immigration and skill training will be promoted in the largest economy of Europe.

The list of reforms recently introduced by the German government are –

The applicant should have a Professional or University degree that is recognized in Germany and an employment contract.

There is a minimum of two years of experience needed in a related profile of a degree or vocational training

The applicant should have an "opportunity card" in case one doesn't have the job offer but has the potential to work. The opportunity card follows the point-based system where language skills, education, professional work experience, age, and connection to Germany are taken into consideration.

Germany is looking forward to speeding up the issuance of Visas in the coming years, and attractive measures are being taken to invite skilled foreign workers. With new laws, the key hurdles are being addressed, and the complex process of evaluating educational credentials is also removed. Just like any other industrialized country, Germany is also facing labor shortages, especially in the high-growth sectors, and it has taken a toll on the economy, so much so that it might also lead to a recession in the country. Thus, meeting the labor market demand is imperative for Germany at the moment and for this increasing immigrations is the best solution.

In this regard, Germany is especially working to ease the way for IT professionals to obtain visas. The idea is to modernize the beaurocratic Process in Germany to obtain work visas and make the process easy for the skilled worker to relocate to Germany. The first step in this regard is to put a new system in place where the people who have not signed a specific job contract can also move to Germany. They should, however, be lauded for their skills and talent, thereby having the capability to look for a job when they arrive in Germany.

What are the changes that will make Germany an attractive destination in the future?

The notable changes that will make Germany a lucrative place for skilled workers in the future are –

Opportunity Card -  It will be a point-based system that will take into account the education, language, age, work experience, ad connection to Germany for the selection of applicants. If this card is obtained before coming to Germany, then the applicant will be allowed to stay in the country and look for a job. The  unskilled worker can also enter Germany if there is an acute shortage identified by the Federal Employment Agency (BA)

EU Blue card made more accessible -  EU Blue card will be made more accessible to a large number of specialists with a university degree. This will make the country more attractive for foreigners as they come for vocational courses or for further education in Germany.

No need for formal recognition of university degrees - Third-world country applicants can move to Germany and work in their area of expertise without formal education or any professional qualification. The process will help them equate their educational qualification with the closest German degree. In case your degree doesn't match up to the German standards, then the applicant will have to undertake an additional study.

A professional qualification can be recognized after arriving -  The applicant will have the right to initiate the process after they have entered the county and not before. This will help the employers hire quickly, and it will also be easier for the worker's qualifications to be recognized if they have already started working in qualified employment.

Allow short-term employment-  The applicants can be hired for short-term work, and they will be able to meet their temporary needs. For this, the special qualification requirements will not be considered. The number of hires in this program is capped.

If you are looking for Germany job seeker visas, you can visit the links and explore more opportunities in Germany.

[batnbreakfast]

FUCK THEM! 🥳🥳

[head-post]

Germany, UK join forces to tackle human trafficking across Channel

Britain and Germany pledged on Tuesday to share intelligence and expertise in the fight against gangs ferrying migrants across the English Channel in small boats, in the latest attempt by European countries to stop the dangerous journeys, ABC News reports.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and her German counterpart, Home Secretary Nancy Faeser, signed a “joint action plan” at a meeting in London. The UK said that under the agreement, Germany would make it a specific offence for Germany to facilitate the smuggling of migrants into the UK. Many of the rubber boats used to ferry migrants across the Channel are stored in Germany.

“The criminal gangs who organise dangerous small boats across the channel that undermine our border security, that put lives at risk, are also the same gangs that are operating in Germany, that are operating right across Europe and beyond,” Cooper said. “Law enforcement needs to operate across borders as well.”

Feser said co-operation would include “maintaining a high level of investigative pressure, sharing information as much as possible between our security agencies and continuously investigating financial flows to identify criminals operating behind the scenes.”

Both countries also said they would work to remove migrant smuggling material from social media platforms, where many smuggling gangs advertise their services.

The ministers signed the agreement ahead of a meeting in London of the “Calais Group” which includes Britain, Germany, Belgium, France and the Netherlands, as well as the European Union’s police and border services, Europol and Frontex.

The United Kingdom’s centre-left government is trying to rebuild law enforcement and intelligence links with the UK’s neighbours after the country leaves the EU in 2020. Brexit has complicated international co-operation by taking the UK out of Europol and the intelligence sharing mechanism.

Despite French and UK efforts to tackle migration, the trans-Channel route remains a major smuggling corridor for people fleeing conflict or poverty. Many migrants choose the UK because of language, family ties or perceived easier access to asylum and work.

This year, more than 31,000 migrants have crossed one of the world’s busiest sea routes, more than in the whole of 2023, although less than in 2022. UK officials say more than 70 people have died this year in attempts to cross the canal, making 2024 the deadliest year since the number of crossings began rising in 2018.

Read more HERE

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

When Germans emigrated to Brazil 200 years ago

Two centuries ago there was widespread poverty in Germany. An irresistable offer by the Brazilian emperor back then attracted thousands of German emigrants.

The aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, failed harvests and oppressive tax burdens made life difficult for people in Germany at the beginning of the 19th century.

Then came a tempting offer from the other side of the world — 77 hectares of land for every family willing to settle in Brazil. Plus livestock, seeds and agricultural equipment, as well as financial assistance for the first two years.

It is more than many German farmers, craftsmen and day laborers ever dared to hope for at home. Soon the first of them responded to the call to say goodbye to their old home.

Continue reading.

[skaiawards]

Reddit admins, led by CEO "u/spez", tried to run its previously-popular "place" experiment again to distract users from unpopular opinions. Reddit users made their opinion on the matter clear.

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[bopinion]

2024 / 37 - Belated vacation edition

Aperçu of the week

“Never start to stop and never stop to start!”

(Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman scholar, writer, philosopher and politician)

Bad News of the Week

Poverty and a lack of prospects as well as climate change and a lack of livelihoods are the most common reasons for migration. This is an understandable consideration: those who see no future for themselves (any more) can either resign themselves or set off in search of one somewhere else. Leaving your home country is never easy, so such a move can also be seen as the willpower of someone who won't give up.

Now there are many developed countries that even have a need for immigration. Germany, for example, has a shrinking population due to low birth rates. At the same time, many baby boomers will soon be retiring - so there is less working population and more to care for. A delta that could be closed with immigration. So it's actually a win-win situation that benefits everyone.

Germany does not exactly have the image of a classic immigration country. So anyone who is not a persecuted asylum seeker, but perhaps even a sought-after skilled worker, will think about where to build their future. Potential migrants cite the difficult language, complex bureaucracy and lack of a welcoming culture as the main reasons for not choosing Germany. We cannot change the language, but a reduction in formalities and more openness to the world would also do us good as a society.

I therefore react with incomprehension to the current behavior of the conservative CDU/CSU. They are adopting the pejorative rhetoric of the right and are raging without sense or reason against a supposed emergency situation at the borders caused by an increasing flow of irregular migration - which does not exist to this extent in Germany any more than it does in the USA. An ultimatum from this largest opposition party to the ruling coalition, which it was even prepared to take up constructively, was finally declared a failure just in time for the general debate in the German parliament Bundestag. In this debate, CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz insists on the rejection of refugees at the border. Despite all legal concerns and criticism from neighboring countries.

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz argues against this: “There is no country in the world with a shrinking working population that has economic growth. That is the truth with which we are confronted”. And “We are a country that offers protection to those who are politically persecuted and that is in our constitution and we are not putting that up for debate”. However, he also concedes that openness to the world does not mean that anyone who wants to can come: “We must be able to choose who comes to Germany.”

So the door to talks is still open. Even if only with vague hints instead of a concrete plan on how immigration could be managed for the benefit of all. However, as long as the conservatives bask in good poll ratings and believe it cannot leave populism to the extreme parties, they will refuse to cooperate out of self-interest until at least the next general election. And we will once again fail to come up with a constructive, forward-looking concept for migration. Which we actually urgently need.

Good News of the Week

Taylor Swift and I agree. Elon Musk and I do not. So it should be clear what I'm talking about: the upcoming presidential elections in the USA. Or rather, the televised debate between the two candidates last week. Because it clearly went to the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, as even the otherwise barely objective right-wing populist broadcaster Fox News admits. The corresponding polls can be averaged out at two thirds to one third.

On the one hand, Donald Trump delivered his usual ghost train of doom-mongering, brazen lies, self-praise and bad humor. If he were to lose, there would be a third world war. The one between Russia and Ukraine, on the other hand, would never have happened in the first place. Thanks to him, NATO would be strong again, the pandemic would have been overcome superbly, the economy would be running smoothly and the whole world would take the USA seriously. The Democrats, on the other hand, if not their current vice president personally, would bring millions of migrants from Latin American mental institutions into the country to change gun laws, abort fracking even after birth, eat the cats off African-Americans and tax jobs. Or something like that - at times it was difficult to follow what he was saying.

On the other hand, Kamala Harris gave a solid performance. She came across as factual, credible, confident and self-assured. Yes, at some points one would have wished for more factual content than pathos, but that was not the point. In the run-up to the event, a majority of Americans had explicitly wished to learn more about the candidate. Who ultimately remained rather pale as Vice President. And who had to manage the tightrope act of simultaneously selling her previous performance well and embodying a new beginning. She has managed this reasonably well. And my hopes have risen that we could once again scrape past the abyss on November 5 instead of falling into it. I'm curious to see how the vice-presidential candidates' debate goes the week after next - I'm assuming that it could be entertaining instead of just weird.

Personal happy moment of the week

I had another great time with great people in Québec this week. Thank you!

I couldn't care less...

...that Google has been fined billions in the European Union. We simply have legislation that attempts to control dominant market positions and enable healthy competition in the interests of consumers. I think that's fine in principle.

It's fine with me...

...that BioNTech is now also launching an mRNA vaccine against lung cancer. After all, it was the German company's aim from the outset to use messenger ribonucleic acid to combat this cruel disease, which is the second most common cause of death in humans. This could be nothing less than a medical breakthrough.

As I write this...

...Germany is approaching the last state election of the year. This time it's Brandenburg's turn. Where the ruling Social Democrats could succeed in the last few meters to deprive the far-right AfD (Alternative für Deutschland / Alternative for Germany) of what they thought was a certain victory. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that.

Post Scriptum

After 28 years, the original German internet search engine MetaGer is shutting down. This makes it older than Google, but it has never been able to compete with it. As Yahoo is ending its involvement as an advertising partner without official justification, one of the longest-lived German Internet projects is now being discontinued. However, I have to admit that I have never used it.

[creme-meme]

[tarisbackyard]

I wonder if all the cultural and linguistical uncanny valley nonsense I experience between German and Dutch stuff is a universal experience between closely related cultures/languages, or if this one is just uniquely headache enducing.

I wanna scream.

[allweknewisdead]

Inventur - Metzstrasse 11 (1975), Želimir Žilnik

One by one, 30 residents of a rental building go on camera, on the building’s stairs, to tell about their lives. Many of them have come to what was then West Germany as “guest workers”. Their home countries include Italy, Greece, Turkey, and other places with which Germany had signed labor recruitment agreements starting in 1955.

[dmcreativestudio]

Sandra Schubert - Transport

TRANSPORT is an artistic work about the transformation process after the reunification of Germany and deals with the tension between memories and history. [...] In a file called “Image Documentations on Attacks on the Sea Border of the GDR”, I was fascinated by photographs of means of transport specially prepared or manufactured for the escape, such as a surfboard equipped with motor and black sail, even a self-constructed submarine – all documents of failed attempts to escape over the Baltic Sea. 

[thewordenreport]

Return to Haifa

The film, "Return to Haifa," dramatically depicts the harsh ramifications on families and individuals of macro political decisions in international relations. In its role in establishing Israel, the UN is a silent accomplice antagonist in the film. https://thewordenreport-film.blogspot.com/2025/02/return-to-haifa.html

[ericartem]

Borders, Boogeymen, and Billion-Dollar Boosts

Borders, Boogeymen, and Billion-Dollar Boosts #artem

Content 18+ Immigration is a topic as charged with dynamite as it is with dynamism. I’d begin with the obvious irony: we’re all immigrants if you rewind history far enough. The United States, Germany, Hungary, Russia—all were shaped by people who packed their bags (or were forced to), crossed borders, and declared, “This looks promising!” before someone else grumbled, “Who invited you?” And thus,…

[head-post]

Berlin approves stricter migration controls amid political tensions, Trump’s rise to power

The joint vote of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) with the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) on measures against migrants caused a scandal in the Bundestag. For the first time in post-war history, a right-wing political force helped a centrist party form a majority, Deutsche Welle reports.

Bundestag passed controversial migration policy

By a margin of three votes, the Bundestag approved a resolution demanding passport controls on Germany’s entire external border, banning undocumented people from entering the country, strengthening police powers to expel illegal immigrants and increasing the number of deportations.

It was preceded by a two-hour debate with shouting and insults. After the results were announced, Bernd Baumann, a spokesman for the AfD, announced the beginning of a new era in Germany, led by his party. He said:

“And you, Mr. Merz, can still follow us. If you have the strength.”

Conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz of the CDU. had previously said he regretted bringing the AfD to his side.

However, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, accused the conservatives of breaking their own promises, as they had previously said they would refuse to co-operate with the AfD in principle.

Left Party called fellow citizens to the barricades, after which the meeting was suspended. Earlier, the American media wrote that Friedrich Merz “flirts” with the right-wing AfD. Merz himself denied this.

The discussion about tightening migration policy in Germany heated up after the attack in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria on January 22 when a man and a child were killed and several other people were injured. The suspect was 28-year-old Afghan Enamullah O., who, according to the Bavarian Interior Ministry, had to leave Germany because he was denied asylum in June this year.

The day after that incident, Merz presented a five-point plan to tighten Germany’s migration policy. It calls for the introduction of permanent controls at Germany’s borders, as well as refusing entry to those who do not have permission to stay in the country.

Last year, the German authorities took a number of measures to tighten migration policy. From September 16, 2024, Germany introduced border controls at all internal borders for six months. Berlin has also started negotiations with the authorities of Syria and Afghanistan on the consistent deportation of refugees, in particular “Islamist rapists,” who pose a danger to these countries.

On August 30, for the first time since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, Berlin expelled 28 Afghans convicted in Germany to that country.

The decision to temporarily close the borders caused discontent among Germany’s neighbours. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that “this is a de facto large-scale suspension of the Schengen zone.”

Under the Schengen agreement, controls at internal borders are only allowed as a last resort. Previously, the regime could be extended for a maximum of two years, but in May the European Council approved the possibility of extending it for three years if there is a threat to a country’s security, linked in particular to terrorism, organised crime or sudden large-scale unauthorised movements of citizens from third countries.

Trump prepares facility at Guantanamo for  30,000 migrants

Donald Trump’s rise to power signalled a new anti-immigrant policy in the western bloc. Trump said he signed an executive order on January 29 to prepare a 30,000-person migration centre at the Guantanamo Bay base to hold detained illegal migrants.

The US leader said:

“Today, I’m also signing an Executive Order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”

According to him, the camp will hold “the most dangerous illegal criminals.” Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is home to the US naval base of the same name, which became a prison for international terrorists after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Human rights activists have repeatedly criticised the facility for torture against prisoners.

On January 27, the new US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said that the Pentagon would provide all necessary resources to control the border between the US and Mexico, including additional troops. Trump said he wants to finish building the wall on the Mexican border.

Earlier, the Trump administration allowed illegal migrants to be deported without trial and also announced the resumption of the “Stay in Mexico” programme, which was cancelled by his former US president Joe Biden.

Read more HERE

[tilos-tagebuch]

Merz zu Unions-Anträgen im Bundestag: "AfD bekommt sie nicht“

Noch vor der Bundestagswahl will Unions-Kanzlerkandidat Friedrich Merz Verschärfungen in der Migrationspolitik durchsetzen. Dafür sucht er nun die Unterstützung der ehemaligen Ampel-Parteien. Mit den Rändern des Plenarsaals hingegen will er nicht zusammenarbeiten.

Soure: https://www.0815-info.news/Web_Links-Merz-zu-Unions-Antraegen-im-Bundestag-AfD-bekommt-sie-nicht-visit-11601.html