Embracing the poles
Nic HallResearch International UK
INTRODUCTION
How many of us are not living in the country where we were born? How many of us can trace our ancestry back to another country? In many countries today this is a surprising proportion. In Luxembourg for example the foreign born population is approaching 40%, in Australia and New Zealand 25%, Switzerland 22%, Germany and Austria 12% and in the USA close to 11% (source OCED). In the UK, 4.2% of the population in 1951 were foreign born, this rose to 8.3% in 2001 and an estimated 9.5% in 2005....