2024-09-13 02:45:19
The AfD’s poll and election successes are shaping the political debate. A survey shows that many people with a migration background are considering moving away because of the party’s influx of support.
Against the backdrop of a growing AfD, a survey has shown that a large proportion of people with a migration background can imagine leaving Germany. Almost one in four people with a migration background surveyed are considering this, at least hypothetically, the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (Dezim) in Berlin announced on the occasion of the presentation of a corresponding study.
The respondents were asked to express their agreement or disagreement with the following sentence: “Since the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has increasingly had good poll ratings, I have been thinking about emigrating from Germany.” 27 percent of respondents from the Middle East and North Africa region agreed (completely or somewhat), 24 to 25 percent from non-EU countries in Europe and other regions of the world also expressed agreement. Almost ten percent of respondents with a migration background have concrete plans to emigrate from Germany.
According to the institute, data from a representative survey of the German population was evaluated, which also recorded specific opinions of people with different migration backgrounds. Around 3,000 people were surveyed in March – i.e. before the European elections and the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia.
The Dezim was established by the Bundestag in 2016 to network migration research in Germany. It is mainly funded by the federal government through the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs.