Immigration in Germany (1986-1995)

1986:

• Number of annual immigrants above 100.000 for the first time
• Discussion about preventing the high immigration
• Every 6^th immigrant from East Europe
• 4, 5 mio. immigrants in Germany

1988:

• Every 3^rd immigrant from East Europe
• Government tried to prevent the high immigration

1989:

• 120.000 immigrants,
• Critical domestic discussion at the beginning of the 90s

1990:

• 190.000 immigrants
• End of the 80s/beginning of the '90s: immigrants especially from the East European countries (of former German origin)
• Germany granted asylum to more people than any other European country

1991:

• 1.199.000 immigrants
• after the Yugoslavian war: 350.000 former Yugoslavs fled to Germany

1992:

• 1.500.000 immigrants
• Treaty of Maastricht ( citizens of the EU that work in Germany or another country of the EU have to be treated like a national)

1993:

• 1.277.000 immigrants
• "Asylkompromiss" (right of asylum was specified and restricted-> e.g.: refugees who were not persecuted in their own countries or made their journey through a safe country were not allowed to stay in Germany.)

1994:

• 1.082.000 immigrants

1995:

• 1.096.000 immigrants

Reasons for immigration:

• political stability in Germany
• economic success
• the Wall between the FRG and the GDR fell
• refugees who already stayed  in Germany were allowed to fetch their families

Reasons for emigration:

• in the 90´s lots of the immigrants were from war zones and areas of political crises (Balkan; Soviet Union)
• poverty 
• political instability
• human rights conflict in Turkey

Effects of immigration

• many attacks on refugee centres and even murder in Germany
• disquiet among the native population

Historical background:

• the Balkan war caused a huge immigration wave at the beginning of the 90s
• in 1986 about 72,1% of immigrants came from the third world

 

Number of refugees in 1992

http://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/dossier-migration/56443/flucht-und-asyl-seit-1990?type=galerie&show=image&i=56466

 

https://koptisch.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/staatsministerin-bohmer-turkische-migranten-mussen-in-deutschland-ankommen/

 

Sources:

http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/wertingen/Als-Fluechtlinge-ins-Containerdorf-kamen-id32033677.html

http://www.zeitgeschichte-online.de/thema/flucht-und-asyl

https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article149441251/Schon-die-DDR-nutzte-Fluechtlinge-als-Druckmittel.html

http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/60-jahre-bundesrepublik/tid-13739/leser-berichten-wichtige-ereignisse-im-ueberblick_aid_383053.html

http://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/kurzdossiers/155393/eu-binnenmigration

http://www.domid.org/de/migrationsgeschichte-deutschland

http://www.focus-migration.hwwi.de/Germany.1509.0.html?&L=1

http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flüchtlingspolitik_(Deutschland)