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Germans now the Minority in Frankfurt: Over Half City’s Residents are Migrants

30-6-2017 < Red Ice Creations 85 141 words
 
Germans now the Minority in Frankfurt: Over Half City’s Residents are Migrants More than half of residents living in the German city of Frankfurt have a migrant background, according to new statistics.  Figures show 51.2 per cent of people living there are either non-German, German citizens born abroad or Germans who are the children of immigrants. The city's secretary of integration Sylvia Weber said: 'We have minorities with relatively large numbers in Frankfurt but no group with a clear majority.' Turkish migrants are the largest non-German minority that are settled in Frankfurt, accounting for 13 per cent of the population. A further 61 per cent of residents who were born abroad have come from other countries within the European Union.  The vast majority of immigrants had a legal and 'consolidated' status of residency.   The statistics were revealed in a 200-page…
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