Fwd: Korean Immigrants in the U.S., Ecuador's Migration Trends--Migration Information Source, December 4, 2014

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December 4, 2014 Also in the Newsletter Have You Read? South American Immigrants in the United States Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region Counting the Uncountable: Overseas Americans Keep up with the Source Subscribe Not on the list? Continue receiving these updates by subscribing today. RSS Feed Subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up with the latest articles. Follow MPI New from MPI Aiming Higher: Policies to Get Immigrants into Middle-Skilled Work in Europe By Meghan Benton, Madeleine Sumption, Kristine Alsvik, Susan Fratzke, Christiane Kuptsch, and Demetrios G. Papademetriou Developing School Capacity for Diversity By Sabine Severiens Language Support for Youth with a Migrant Background: Policies that Effectively Promote Inclusion By Hanna Siarova and Miquel Àngel Essomba	Spotlight Korean Immigrants in the United States Migration to the United States from the Korean peninsula, largely from South Korea, owes its roots to political, military, and economic factors, with an estimated 1.1 million Korean immigrants in the United States. Korean migration to the United States has stalled in recent years, and even declined, with a small but growing number of immigrants and their U.S.-born children returning to Korea, as this article explores. Country Profile Ecuador: From Mass Emigration to Return Migration? This country profile analyzes Ecuador's migration trends and examines how remittances and return migration have become an important policy focus for a country with an estimated 1.5 million to 2 million nationals living abroad, chiefly in the United States, Spain, and Italy. As waves of emigration occurred, Ecuador also has experienced significant inflows of refugees and economic and lifestyle migrants. Editor's Note Capping a busy year in immigration developments around the world, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) this week published its annual International Migration Outlook. Among the interesting findings: Germany is the second largest destination for international migrants among the 34 OECD countries, after the United States. For the fourth consecutive year, Germany recorded an increase in migrants, with 450,000 arriving in 2013, a double-digit rise from the prior year. Three-quarters of Germany's migrants come from other European Union (EU) countries, OECD notes. Notwithstanding British anxieties over EU migration, Germany takes in the most EU migrants, with 30 percent, compared to 7 percent heading to the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister David Cameron recently announced plans to decrease annual immigration to the United Kingdom after official statistics showed net migration rose about 260,000, despite government promises to the contrary. Denmark also experienced a rise in migrant inflows, OECD reports, with 52,000 settling in the country last year, marking a 73 percent increase since 2007. Migration continues to play an important role in OECD countries, with 10 percent of the total OECD population (115 million people) recorded as immigrants. The findings demonstrate a changing migration landscape, with one in ten migrants from China, and one in five from Asia. Migrants to OECD countries are also more likely to be women, highly educated, and overqualified for their jobs. While family migration continues to account for the bulk of migration to OECD countries, the report notes increases in highly skilled migration and humanitarian flows. Drops were recorded in labor migration overall, particularly in Southern Europe. Ireland's waning number of arrivals mirrored Denmark's gain, with a 73 percent drop between 2007 and 2012. More broadly, the report found that legal permanent migration flows from third countries to the European Union are, for the first time, lower than similar flows to the United States. OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría called for member countries to better engage with migrants, noting that employment rates of highly educated immigrants are lower than their native counterparts, with an almost 50 percent chance of being overqualified when employed. He focused on the need for better integration policies, in particular recognition of foreign credentials and opportunities for language training, declaring that "migrants are an asset, not a problem." Best wishes, Zara Rabinovitch Editor, Migration Information Source source@migrationpolicy.org Advertisement Oxford University's new online course Join our course on International Labour Migration: Economics, Politics and Ethics which analyses global trends, determinants and effects of international labour migration. Apply now for next start in January 2015. The Migration Information Source is a project of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. Copyright @ 2014 Migration Policy Institute. All rights reserved. MPI | 1400 16th St. NW, Suite 300 | Washington, DC 20036 ph: (001) 202-266-1940 | fax: (001) 202-266-1900 source@migrationpolicy.org

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