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• Immigration concerns in Europe
• Population growth in Europe is fueled  by immigration from other regions of the world a trend disliked by many Europeans
• biggest fear is that the host country's culture will be lost, because immigrants:
• adhere to different religions 
• speak different languages
• practice different food and other cultural habits

• hostility to immigrants has become a central park of some political parties in many European countries
• immigrants blamed for crime, unemployment rates, and high welfare costs
• Characteristics of Migrants 
• Ravenstein noted:
• Most long distance migrants are male
• most long distance migrants are adult individuals rather than families with children
• most long distance migrants are young adults seeking work rather than children and elderly people