Circular migration

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Circular migration is a term used to describe migratory movements that are expressed by multiple changes between two or more countries. Usually it is about repeated migrations between the country of origin and the destination country.

Definition and occurrence

The term can be used to typify migration . However, there is no uniform definition of how often the center of life has to be changed in order to be called circular migration . An evaluation of the Central Register of Foreigners for 2010 showed that around 360,000 third-country nationals in Germany had left and re- entered Germany at least once. A repeated circular migration was found for 100,000 third-country nationals. The largest number are people from Turkey.

Political Programs

Political programs to promote circular migration target temporary labor migration . This is intended migrants be allowed to regularly return to their countries of origin to contribute to there with the knowledge gained to develop (know-how transfer). These programs are also intended to reduce the "outflow of knowledge from developing countries" ( brain drain ). The migrants mostly do not lose their right of residence in the destination country.

From an economic perspective, circular migration can help meet job demand. Accordingly, the labor market is a filter for migration.

discussion

However, circular migration concepts are controversial. In an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau , the migration researcher Franzisca Zanker ( Arnold Bergstraesser Institute ) said that the approach to promoting development projects to reduce migration is being controversially discussed among scientists. There is no evidence that there are fewer emigrants when a country is more developed. Projects that want to combat the causes of displacement by promoting economic development are therefore politically questionable.

The parties CDU, CSU and FDP as well as the DGB spoke out in 2011 against using circular migration to cover the labor shortage in Germany. The DGB also feared that circular migration could lead to "migrants being denied socio-economic rights" because of their short stay. Business and employer associations such as the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry , on the other hand, spoke in favor of "flexible forms of employee migration".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jan Schneider, Bernd Parusel : Circular and Temporary Migration . Ed .: Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. Working Paper, No. 35 , 2011, p. 54 ff .
  2. ^ A b c d Jan Schneider, Bernd Parusel: Circular and temporary migration . In: Federal Office for Migration and Refugees . Working Paper, No. 35 , 2011, p. 16, 25 ff . ( bamf.de [PDF]).
  3. ^ Circular migration , entry in the glossary migration, Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb).
  4. ^ "Coupling migration and development policy does not work" , Frankfurter Rundschau online, March 25, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2019.