Integrating Immigrant Children into Schools in Europe

Chapter 2 – Demographic Trendscontinent of origin illustrated in Figure 2.2B clearly indicates that in Cyprus, the Netherlands, Sweden, theUnited Kingdom, Iceland and Norway, the 15-country EU is the main geographical region of origin.876543210Figure 2.2A: Proportion of the foreign population comprising nationals of one of the EU-15 countries andproportion of the foreign population from outside the EU-15 countries,with respect to the total population, 1 January 20022024 32 16 22% %BECZDKDEEEELESFRIEITCYLVEU-15 foreignersLTLU(:) (:) (:) (:) (:)HU MT NL AT PL PT SI SK FI SE UK IS LI NO BG ROForeigners from non-EU countries (outside EU-15)BE CZ DK DE EE EL ES FR IE IT CY LV LT LU HU MT NL AT PL PT SI SK FI SE UK IS LI NO BG RO5.5 0.1 1.0 2.3 0.1 0.4 1.0 2.0 2.7 0.3 4.7 0.0 0.0 31.8 0.1 (:) 1.3 1.3 (:) 0.6 0.1 (:) 0.3 2.1 1.5 0.9 16.1 1.8 (:) (:)2.7 1.6 3.9 6.6 19.9 6.5 2.3 3.5 2.1 2.3 4.7 23.7 1.0 5.1 1.0 (:) 3.0 7.5 (:) 1.6 2.2 (:) 1.6 3.3 2.7 1.7 21.5 2.3 (:) (:)Total 8.2 1.7 5.0 8.9 20.0 6.9 3.3 5.6 4.8 2.5 9.4 23.7 1.0 36.9 1.1 (:) 4.3 8.9 (:) 2.2 2.3 (:) 1.9 5.3 4.2 2.6 37.6 4.1 (:) (:)Source: Eurostat, Population and social conditions, demography, New Cronos (data obtained in February 2004) andEurostat, European social statistics - Migration (2002).Additional notesCzech Republic, Italy, Luxembourg, Lithuania and Austria: Data for 2001.Estonia and Iceland: Data for 2000.Greece: Provisional data for 2001.France: Data from the 1999 census.Ireland and Hungary: Provisional data.Italy, Luxembourg and Austria: Data for 2001.Latvia: The ‘Foreigners from non-EU countries’ category includes former citizens of the former USSR who have a noncitizenstatus.United Kingdom: 2000, estimated provisional data.Liechtenstein: Data for 1997.Explanatory noteThis indicator has been calculated by dividing, on the one hand, the number of foreigners who are nationals of one ofthe EU-15 Member States by the total population on 1 January 2002 and, on the other, the number of foreigners whoare nationals of a country outside EU-15 also by the total population on 1 January 2002.876543210Figure 2.2B also shows that the origin by continent of foreign populations within the EU varies to someextent but also that the origins of the foreign population as a whole within the EU are primarily European.However, a few countries are exceptions. Africa is the main continent of origin in France, Italy andPortugal, whereas Spain takes in a growing proportion of American citizens. This is largely attributable tothe fact that parts of Africa and America are former colonies of these host countries.21