Against the backdrop of violence in Iran against demonstrators, including numerous killings, several German federal states have imposed a deportation ban to Iran. These include Brandenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine–Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, and Saarland. In Baden-Württemberg, however, such a measure is not being considered, as the Ministry of Justice and Migration stated to Tagesschau a few days ago.
Currently, around 319,000 people with an Iranian migration background live in Germany, 250,000 of whom immigrated themselves. This makes it the largest Iranian community in Europe. About 161,000 of them do not hold German citizenship. Roughly 68 percent of these—around 110,000 people—have a residence permit.
From Asylum to Employment
Over the past ten years, the proportion of Iranian refugees who receive protection in Germany has declined significantly—from more than 50 percent to around 23 percent today. The majority of Iranians in Germany hold a residence permit for employment-related or family reasons. Around 18,000 people are classified as “required to leave the country.” Since 2020, there have been 114 deportations. These figures were published by Mediendienst Integration based on a recent investigation.
Many refugees arrived in Germany over recent decades due to the Iranian Revolution (around 1980), the Iran–Iraq War (1985), and the violently suppressed public protests against the regime (2009 and 2017/18).
For the Mediendienst Integration research with further figures on employment and educational levels of Iranians in Germany: Iranians in Germany | Media Service Integration
tuenews INTERNATIONAL reported on the violence against demonstrators in Iran:
Mass unrest flares up again in Iran – tuenews
Remote assistance for the injured in Iran – tuenews
Iran: ‘The regime is killing its own people’ – tuenews
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