"According to an opinion poll by the polling institute YouGov on behalf of Welt am Sonntag, 40 percent of Germans with an immigrant background believe that Germany should receive fewer refugees than at present (without an immigrant background 45 percent)."
"24 percent of immigrants even say that no more refugees should come into the country (without an immigrant background: 25 percent). The answers from German citizens with and without migration background do not significantly differ from each other," the newspaper reported on Sunday.
"Eight percent of immigrants are in favor of receiving more refugees (without an immigrant background six percent), 23 percent said that Germany should receive the same number (without an immigrant background 20 percent)."
The poll defined a person with an immigrant background as either somebody who themselves immigrated to Germany, or has parents or grandparents who immigrated to Germany; every fifth German falls into this category. It found that people, whose immigration history was less recent, tended to distinguish themselves from newer arrivals.
Immigrants in Germany sceptical about new refugees https://t.co/Q8QYCSc6kh
— Szymon Parzniewski (@pazurro) 30 ноября 2015
'Migrants want less refugees in Germany' — Welt am Sonntag.
"Whenever foreigners come, those who have been here for some time are less foreign," Wolfgang Kaschuba, director of the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM), told the newspaper.
"All immigrants know, of course, that resources are scarce. They are happy that they can participate, and like native Germans tend to ask, is this not too much? Do we have to share?" said Kaschuba.
Germany, which in 2014 had a population of 81.2 million, is expected to receive 800,000 asylum seekers in 2015, according to official figures; however, other estimates put the number of newcomers at between 1.2 and 1.5 million.
