Enjoyable,. I was struggling with a couple of answers and had to work out the overall population based on the hints given. This then gave me an idea of the size of the country and enabled me to have a better guess at them..
I thought for sure Kenya and Uganda would make the list because they are hosting many refugees, but it seems when I research it that the numbers are not high enough to put them on this list. I was surprised.
There were some serious famines in Kazakhstan under the Soviet Union resulting in large population displacements and a large Kazakh diaspora. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of these dispersed Kazakhs have been returning to Kazakhstan. There has also been a lot of immigration from the neighboring -stans to the south, especially Uzbekistan.
They may be classified as such if they were just Soviet citizens previously. Some people must presumably have been given a nationality they didn't identify with following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Yanni, yes, if they were residents of other countries when Kazakhstan declared independence and then became citizens of those countries, as many of them did. There were large numbers of Kazakhs living in Russia, in particular. Still are.
i figured that since the -istan countries are opening up they might wanna immigrate, and so I typed russia and Kazakhstan. Also I heard their opening up medical schools with prices cheap enough for south asians
Yeah, I am one of them. Even though I was born in the UAE and have lived here all my life, there is no possibility of citizenship. A sad situation really.
all gulf countries with a huge immigrant population percentage have an extremely difficult way of getting citizenship (kuwait, bahrain, qatar, and the uae).
People go back and forth to DPRK quite often. There are a lot of children born to couples of mixed Chinese and Korean citizenship (of Korean ethnicity).
Why so many immigrants into the Ukraine? I read somewhere they have low wages, lower than China. Displacement from the war would be more internal than from external sources.
I would say so. Yes, they're notoriously xenophobic, but having fewer immigrants in the entire country than Kuwait? That's pretty extreme. And probably not even accurate. I bet the source is counting China, Hong Kong, and Macau separately.
::does some sniffing around::
yep.. as I thought. If you add all 3 together the total number of immigrants in China is 4,149,980.
^this would actually put China above Thailand. Not sure if QM wants to update this, though. And further complicating things it might be that some of the immigrant population in Hong Kong and Macau are from mainland China and vice versa... but I bet they still beat out Kuwait.
@kalbahamut. No, that's not correct. You can't count China, Hong Kong and Macau separately because the majority of those "immigrants" are internal. For example, a person born in mainland China who now lives in Hong Kong would be counted as an immigrant.
What did I say that was incorrect? You are disagreeing with the methodology of the source you cite for the quiz, not with me. And I raised the same potential disagreement myself. Doing some further digging and based on census data it looks like the total number of immigrants living in all Chinese territories that are not from other Chinese territories is about 1.5 million. So, less than the 3 million in Kuwait. Still quite far from "essentially none." Maybe you meant that my guess about this was incorrect.
it really doesn't matter you don't need to write a whole paragraph just to tell that you are right, even if you are wrong(not saying u are right or wrong)
Not quite. Covid has severly limited migration, the far right has continued to grow across the continent (including in politics), Denmark is sending back many of the Syrians that came, and the UK left the EU.
Meanwhile Greece has sealed off the Turkish border for Syrians, the Italian Navy has been patrolling Mediterranean waters to pick up migrants and prevent them from entering, the German Army was sent to Africa to reduce migration and paid several dictators to cooperate. Other countries are paying other African nations to take foreign Africans too.
But perhaps the most severe of all, Sub Saharans are still using the Libya route in an attempt to get to Europe but are often caught and enslaved by the very people they've paid to take them. One can see grown Nigerian men being sold for $400 there. For those who make it past Africa, the Mediterranean still continues to claim the lives of many.
Too late for a nice clean solution? Yes. Too late for a messy but possible solution? No.
Just going to ignore the obvious and blatant ignorantly racist and xenophobic implications of the comment for a second... and say... seems like migrants mostly prefer going to places that are vibrant and alive. Not dead. The places with zero immigration have economies in the toilet, few jobs, few public resources, with cultures that are difficult or unappealing to try and integrate into. Is that the end goal? You want to be more like those places?
Centuries? The US is not even 2 centuries old. The colonization from before independence wasn't that many people. The largest cities were all quite small. The oldest European settlements were very small.
If your parents, grandparents, great grandparents, or great great great great grandparents immigrated somewhere... that doesn't mean you are yourself an immigrant. If it did, then every country outside of Africa would be 100% immigrant, and most within would be close to that figure. Stop thinking tribally. People are people.
I think it would be cool to include a top country box to give a geographic hint, or a cause, like "war" or "natural disaster" if that is available in the data.
For those who were wondering why Kazakhstan was on there, I believe it's because many Russian men are fleeing to Kazakhstan to avoid being drafted to the war in Ukraine.
::does some sniffing around::
yep.. as I thought. If you add all 3 together the total number of immigrants in China is 4,149,980.
China has essentially no foreign-born population.
Meanwhile Greece has sealed off the Turkish border for Syrians, the Italian Navy has been patrolling Mediterranean waters to pick up migrants and prevent them from entering, the German Army was sent to Africa to reduce migration and paid several dictators to cooperate. Other countries are paying other African nations to take foreign Africans too.
But perhaps the most severe of all, Sub Saharans are still using the Libya route in an attempt to get to Europe but are often caught and enslaved by the very people they've paid to take them. One can see grown Nigerian men being sold for $400 there. For those who make it past Africa, the Mediterranean still continues to claim the lives of many.
Too late for a nice clean solution? Yes. Too late for a messy but possible solution? No.