Professor Yuliya Kosyakova sums up her new data findings in this video: for many immigrants Germany is just a stopover. Why do so many plan to leave  and what could make them stay? Politics, taxes, bureaucracy or is it about belonging?

The IAB, together with the Socio-Economic Panel and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, surveyed over 50,000 people and received surprising answers.

Further reading

Yuliya Kosyakova, Lukas Olbrich, Katia Gallegos Torres, Luisa Hammer, Theresa Koch, Simon Wagner: Germany as a stopover? Insights into return and International Mobility Panel of Migrants in Germany (IMPa), IAB-Research Report No 15/2025en.

About the person

Yuliya Kosyakova is Head of the Research Department on Migration, Integration and International Labour Market Research at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg (together with Herbert Brücker) and Professor of Migration Research at the University of Bamberg.

 

Aktivieren Sie JavaScript um das Video zu sehen.
https://youtube.com/shorts/clSpzd7CXyk?si=e7t_n3cGX0CnwKSK

 

Video

The video can be found on the IAB’s YouTube channel.

DOI: 10.48720/IAB.FOO.20260209.03

 

This publication is published under the following Creative Commons licence: Attribution – ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0):

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de

 

Diese Publikation ist unter folgender Creative-Commons-Lizenz veröffentlicht: Namensnennung – Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de