"Geographer Stefan Kordel from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, southern Germany, told DW that labor migration in the care sector has become highly professionalized. Government and private sector players, even individual clinics and nursing homes, are competing for nursing staff and trainees. Economic interests are at stake. In extreme cases, his colleague Tobias Weidinger added, it might go something like this: "They say to the recruitment agency, 'Please deliver us five immigrants for the next training year.'""
"On social media, clinics have been highlighting just how crucial it is to have people with an immigrant background as part of the team. More than 25% of Germany's population has what is known in Germany as an "immigrant background," a statistical category to describe someone who immigrated to Germany or who has at least one foreign-born parent. According to the Federal Employment Agency, the care sector in Germany would collapse without immigration:"
Germany's care sector depends heavily on immigrant labor, with more than 300,000 people arriving recently to care for elderly and sick. Labor migration in nursing has become highly professionalized, with government bodies, private companies, clinics and nursing homes competing to recruit and train foreign staff. Recruitment agencies face pressure to deliver specific numbers of migrants for training cohorts. Over 25% of the population has an immigrant background. Almost one in four nursing-home staff is a foreign national and one in five care professionals come from abroad, while retirements and heavy workloads increase demand for migrant caregivers.
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