Immigration i Danmark og USA

Most immigrants typically come from afrika or come from places with poorer conditions.

Denmark´s immigrants

Today there are more than 450,000 people with immigrant background in Denmark. The immigrants, refugees and their descendants, they come from more than 150 different countries. In the period before the 1960s, Denmark had only a very limited immigration, this immigration consisted primarily of Jews, Poles, Dutchmen and Nederland’s.Compared to their proportion of the population are immigrants, a relatively small proportion of the workforce and a relatively larger proportion of the unemployed. More over, immigrants are unemployed for longer than the general population. On average, unemployment among immigrants three times as high as among the Danes, especially women, as well as Turkish, Somali and Moroccan men are often unemployed. In 1973 Denmark introduced a total ban on entry of workers from third countries. Still, immigration, as many guest workers brought their wife and children to Denmark. The many family reunions and large refugee influx led to the Immigration Act were tightened in 1986 and the rules on family reunification in 1992.

Around the world

Since Christopher Columbus discovered the continent, North America, many people tried to find luck there. Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese and Dutch have all, in a very high degree, tried to colonize the land is which is called United States today. From around 1900, and up to 1 World War, immigration to the United States was very high, and peaked in 1907. Subsequently, the trend quickly again when there was war in Europe, but after the first World War end in 1918, many tried their luck again, by crossing the Atlantic. But after Black Thursday, the 29th October 1929, the New York Stock Exchange collapsed, followed the Great Depression, which laid the dark world of poor economy and stopped immigration to God's Own Country, then was kept to a minimum. The second World War followed soon after, was again a factor that led to immigration was very, very low.