No future in Germany? Jobs, housing, finances: 20% of young Germans hope for better living conditions abroad. In the long term, emigration appeals to 41% of 14- to 29-year-olds, a new study finds.
Reasons for dissatisfaction can be different from reasons for emigration. They might be a subset, a superset, or have no overlap whatsoever. I am also dissatisfied about certain things, but these things are no reason for me to leave the country. So what makes them leave? Is it immigration like the commenter suggested? Is it the rise of anti-immigrant political parties that threaten democracy? Is it both? Neither? Something else? The article does not say. Hell, one reason why people say “I want to emigrate” could be that they don’t know what the word means, or how the question was phrased together with the tendency of survey respondents to respond in the affirmative.
At the very least, it’s not the article that makes the causal connection but the study, at least its press release.
Der Druck auf die junge Generation steigt und die Chancen, diesen gerecht zu werden, schwinden. Dauerkrisen,
unsichere berufliche Perspektiven, Schulden und mentaler Stress prägen die Lebenslage vieler junger Menschen. Als Reaktion wenden sie sich den politischen Rändern zu oder denken sogar daran, Deutschland zu verlassen. Das ist die zentrale Botschaft der neunten Trendstudie „Jugend in Deutschland“
We’ll either have to trust that or not. But there’s no real indication that the causality is not there. To verify the claim we’d need access to the study.
Reasons for dissatisfaction can be different from reasons for emigration. They might be a subset, a superset, or have no overlap whatsoever. I am also dissatisfied about certain things, but these things are no reason for me to leave the country. So what makes them leave? Is it immigration like the commenter suggested? Is it the rise of anti-immigrant political parties that threaten democracy? Is it both? Neither? Something else? The article does not say. Hell, one reason why people say “I want to emigrate” could be that they don’t know what the word means, or how the question was phrased together with the tendency of survey respondents to respond in the affirmative.
At the very least, it’s not the article that makes the causal connection but the study, at least its press release.
We’ll either have to trust that or not. But there’s no real indication that the causality is not there. To verify the claim we’d need access to the study.