Rapid Reports Population and social conditions. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION FLOWS IN SELECTED EC COUNTRIES-1991.

Abstract

Whereas emigration from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom as a total has been stable during the past ten years, immigration to the same countries increased rapidly especially between 1987 and 1989, (Graph 1 ). A major part of this increase is due to the immigration of around half a million of people of German origin (so­called Übersiedler) into Germany (from East Germany and Eastern Europe be­fore 1990, from Eastern Europe in 1990 and 1991). It is important to note that movements of East­Germans into West­Germany from 1990 onwards are no longer con­sidered to be international migratory flows but are re­garded as part of internal German migration. The effect of the migration of East Germans to West Germany is considerable between 1989 and 1990.