Category Archives: Immigration
“Demography is Destiny”…
… and Europe’s Destiny Dwindles. The quotation is borrowed from Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857), the reputed originator of the study of ‘sociology’, after having experienced the French Revolution. The polities of the defined continent of Europe (excluding Russia, which … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Immigration
Tagged fertility rate, net migration rate, population decline, population growth rate
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A perspective from the second generation of an immigrant family
I came to Sweden twenty years ago as an immigrant from the United States, but under circumstances different from those which drove my grandparents to leave their homeland. I traveled comfortably, under no duress, to be with the woman I … Continue reading