Comparison between new and old immigrants

Life happiness of immigrants: Old immigrants are more pessimistic than new immigrants. According to Sing Tao Daily, Gallup's report published on June 5438+03 shows that the origin, destination and the length of stay in immigrant countries around the world will have an impact on their happiness in life. For example, many people feel that life in a new country after immigration is not as happy as that of local residents, but some people feel the opposite.

The World Migration Report 20 13 issued by the International Organization for Migration cited these findings. They are the results of the Gallup World Survey, which surveyed nearly 25,000 first-generation immigrants and 442,000 local residents in 150 countries from 2009 to 20 1 year. Because of the large sample size, Gallup divides immigrants into two categories: new immigrants (those who have migrated to a new country for less than five years) and old immigrants (those who have migrated to a new country for at least five years), and compares the life experiences of the two categories of immigrants with those of local residents in the host country.

The survey found that people who immigrated from one high-income economy to another (north to north) are as happy with their current life as the local residents in the immigrant countries, and even more optimistic about their life in the next five years.

However, those who immigrate from low-income and middle-income economies to high-income economies (from south to north) are more dissatisfied with their current lives than the local residents in the immigrant countries. Old immigrants are the most pessimistic about their future life, while new immigrants are as optimistic about their future life as local residents in immigrant countries. People who immigrate from one low-and middle-income economy to another (going from south to south) feel the least happiness, and the old immigrants from south to south are less happy about their present and future lives than the old immigrants from north to south.

Immigrants from north to south are as happy about their present life as local residents in immigrant countries, but the former is more pessimistic about the future than the latter.