A new OECD study has found Germany is successfully integrating migrants despite obstacles such as migrants often having little education.
If you were to listen to many in Germany, you would think the country’s integration of migrants and asylum seekers was going rather poorly. But a new study by the 38-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shows that isn’t the case.
Despite a number of challenges — such as further education and training — Germany is doing a better job than many of its European neighbors when it comes to integrating new arrivals, the study finds.
This right here. I was in Berlin as an ethnically ambiguous looking exchange student in 2022. The amount of times I got told to “go back to my country” while doing something as benign as going to the registrars office or out grocery shopping and daring to use accented German was…whew.
The looks on their faces when I came out with perfect Canadian English asking “And what country would that be?” was a nice consolation prize, but I didn’t expect to get so much attention from Berliners after being told how Berliners just mind their business and I’d be fine.