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12 Immigration and diversity 01 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE EXTRAS Compare your lists and try to think of some more benefits or challenges. b Read the report again. Talk about the highlighted expressions and try to explain them in your own words. Then look them up in a dictionary to check your explanations. Put together a wordlist, adding sample sentences and German equivalents if necessary. Talk together. Can you think of advantages and disadvantages that immigration entails for both sending and receiving countries? Work in A/B pairs. A, read the second part of the report on immigration below. Complete the text with the words from the box, then make a list of challenges and benefits for receiving countries. B, read and complete the third part of the report on p. 196. List the challenges and benefits for sending countries. asylum  demographic  illegally  immigrants  legal  native  receiving  student Language focus 10 Immigration 11 a 12 Receiving countries All over the world citizens’ attitudes towards newcomers have become less welcoming, partly due to the growth of terrorism since 9/11 and the worsening of the economic climate since 2008. Among the challenges for (1) countries is the issue of managing the influx of migrants, e.g. by deciding how many would-be-immigrants to admit and which ones; Canada, for example, admits (2) on the basis of points awarded for education, skills, language and youth. Another issue is the integration of potential immigrants. Among (3) immigrants, people seeking permanent employment constitute a minority; the biggest group is relatives of people already in the country; another way of legal entry is (4) claims or coming to a country on a student visa. However, in an atmosphere of restrictive immigration policies, many people see no other way than to come (5) by overstaying their tourist or (6) visa, by crossing borders illegally – as hundreds of Mexicans do every day into the US – or by using the services of professional people traffickers. While there is disagreement among experts about immigrants’ contribution to or strain on a country’s public purse, there is no doubt about their positive impact on a country’s age structure. Considering the (7) developments in industrialised countries – a lot of which will face declining populations by 2050 – immigration is a way of buying youth. As for job losses among the (8) population, the only group whose jobs immigration seems to affect is the low-skilled. Quite often immigrants tend to compete on the job market with other immigrants who came before, while they complement rather than substitute native-born workers. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv