Eastern European migrant workers and the Danish labour ... - CReAM

with special focus on the skilled and non-skilled labour market. The purpose is to identifyinappropriate development trends and on that basis, produce concrete solutions, such asmanagement strategies and tools for the reception and inclusion of the new workers fromEastern Europe. The need to examine conditions for this type of labour migration is reinforcedby indications that an increasing proportion of these labour migrants choose to settle inDenmark, turning labour migration/mobility into immigration. This development can be tracedin the growing number of new and very young dependants originating from the new EUcountries (see figure below).Sources: Statistics Denmark, Statistikbanken, KRBEF3 and FOLK1Furthermore the economic crisis has apparently not stopped immigration from the East (seefigure next page); official Danish statistics reveal almost 46,000 immigrants of the working age20-59 years from the Eastern European EU countries in Denmark at the beginning of 2012,more than twice as many as at the beginning of 2007 (13). The growth has been especiallyRuth Emerek & Anja Kirkeby • CoMID (Center for the Study of Migration and Diversity • Aalborg University • Denmark Page 3