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1-MIGRATION TO GERMANY 1.1 SITUATION IN GERMANY After 1945, millions of people started to migrate from underdeveloped countries, to Western Europe, in order to be employed, in other words to have better standards of living. After the fifties, the active population in Western Europe was unable to meet the requirements for the rapidly growing economy. Consequently, labor shortage appeared and immigration became a necessity for the economic development of Western European countries. Nearly all of them, therefore turned to immigration process to supply the labor shortage, which was caused by the rapid industrial growth. After the World War II, economists thought that Europe would be unable to provide employment for its own citizens. For instance, Western Germany experienced an inflow of eight millions of refugees from the former eastern provinces. At that time, it was estimated that Germany could only support 44 million people, but its population was...

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