Countries with the Most Immigrants

I guess it does, like all residents.

Lebanon doesn't even have 2.5+ million Syrian refugees.

I thought for sure Kenya and Uganda would make the list because they are hosting many refugees, but it seems when I research it that the numbers are not high enough to put them on this list. I was surprised.

There were some serious famines in Kazakhstan under the Soviet Union resulting in large population displacements and a large Kazakh diaspora. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of these dispersed Kazakhs have been returning to Kazakhstan. There has also been a lot of immigration from the neighboring -stans to the south, especially Uzbekistan.

i figured that since the -istan countries are opening up they might wanna immigrate, and so I typed russia and Kazakhstan. Also I heard their opening up medical schools with prices cheap enough for south asians

I would guess displaced Russians of Ukrainian descent, but I haven't looked into it.

I think it's similar to the answer I gave above for Kazakhstan.

The most important reason for Ukraine being here must be internal migration within the Soviet Union before its collapse.

Is it? Sure it's a big country, but their entrance policies aren't exactly welcoming.

Thailand is a great place for expats. Probably the best in the world.

Funny you say that since USA is 99.3% immigrants

Not quite. Covid has severly limited migration, the far right has continued to grow across the continent (including in politics), Denmark is sending back many of the Syrians that came, and the UK left the EU.

Meanwhile Greece has sealed off the Turkish border for Syrians, the Italian Navy has been patrolling Mediterranean waters to pick up migrants and prevent them from entering, the German Army was sent to Africa to reduce migration and paid several dictators to cooperate. Other countries are paying other African nations to take foreign Africans too.

But perhaps the most severe of all, Sub Saharans are still using the Libya route in an attempt to get to Europe but are often caught and enslaved by the very people they've paid to take them. One can see grown Nigerian men being sold for $400 there. For those who make it past Africa, the Mediterranean still continues to claim the lives of many.

Too late for a nice clean solution? Yes. Too late for a messy but possible solution? No.

Just going to ignore the obvious and blatant ignorantly racist and xenophobic implications of the comment for a second... and say... seems like migrants mostly prefer going to places that are vibrant and alive. Not dead. The places with zero immigration have economies in the toilet, few jobs, few public resources, with cultures that are difficult or unappealing to try and integrate into. Is that the end goal? You want to be more like those places?

...has a population of less than a thousand.

It is by total number. To make it on the list 3.5 million would be needed which is about 1/5 of the total population (20%)

The source used for this quiz puts it at about 2.3 million and 13.5%

But their size is really small. This goes off of numbers, not percentages.

It's by people, not percentage.

Did you bike all around Canada and count all the immigrants?

That's like me saying that the UK is 99% British because all the places I can get to by bicycle are broadly rural and lacking in immigrants. Your experience isn't necessarily representative.

I don't know where you are going biking, but the bige cities of Canada are not necessarily representative of the whole country. Smaller cities and rural areas bring percentages of immigrants down, since fewer immigrants settle there.

Also, immigration statistics are not the same as ethnic background. Second or third generation Canadians with Indian, Chinese, etc. heritage wouldn't be included on a quiz like this, while someone's British grandparent who immigrated as a child in the 50s would be included.

Yes, same here. Totally baffles me, unless they are counting invading Russian troops as "immigrants"

I mean, the problem is that the current trends in politics are a reaction to immigration. Americans seeing immigrants as a threat is what gives rise to populist politicians vowing to deport immigrants; not the other way around. Of course it's going to be impossible to deport 50 million immigrants, or even the 12-13 million illegal ones. But that doesn't mean that it's fair to ignore the number of people who will be deported in the next few years, which could easily rise into the millions. Nor is it fair to ignore the inhumane ways they are being sent to other countries or place in detention centers where they're treated like animals; or the way the current administration uses immigration as a dog whistle to justify deploying the National Guard onto the streets of major American cities, restricting freedoms among even native-born Americans.

It´s so funny to me how USians can be against immigration, given it is a country comprising of, built by and a cultural chaos of, overwhelmingly, immigrants.

Sudan, Syria and Yemen are the main ones.

Anyone who is not from the US having anything to say on the matter is unwanted, unneeded and ignorant.

The US has more immigrants than #2, #3 & #4 combined. Think about how much of a unique and difficult situation that presents before you have ANYTHING to say about how we handle it.