The first time I began questioning my national identity was on my train journey back home after coming back from my year abroad in England. My parents are both from Vietnam but I was born in Germany and have lived…
A record amount of Irish passports – over 700,000 – have been issued so far this year. The passport office tweeted the milestone: “Wow, we have just broken a new record, over 700,000 Passports have been issued so far this…
The map above shows the percentage of immigrant populations per country. Rates of immigration are increasing in the world – with immigrants consisting of 12.1 per cent of the world’s population in 2005, compared to 13.2 per in 2015. Several…
10. Spain – 6,5 million immigrants Spain is the second-largest country in the European Union and has a population of 46.7 million, a huge 12% of whom are foreign-born. This continental European nation has attracted large numbers of immigrants in…
In cities around the world, but especially in Western Europe, Australia, the Persian Gulf, and North America, immigrants play a fundamental role in the labor force and the social life of cities. For North American and Australian cities, the…
When I landed in Dublin Airport 13 years ago, I was far from thinking I would still be here after all this time. I had planned to stay for only two or three years, which already seemed quite an ambitious…
Did you go home for Christmas? As a family of four, we rarely do because it’s too expensive, but we try to go to France once a year, and we especially make the effort now that we have kids. We…
All countries have a degree of stereotypes. French are supposedly arrogant, always on strike, walk around in stripy shirts with a baguette in one hand, glass of wine in the other, while smoking a “Camel” cigarette. German are very organised…
“It’s when you go away that you see who cares about you”. A young girl I know, who moved from France to the USA posted this on Facebook and it caught my attention. When I decided to leave France 13…