GERMANY’S IMMIGRATION POLICY: UNDERSTANDING ITS IMPACT ON INDIAN SKILLED IMMIGRANTS

The contemporary global politics has become more inter-dependable than ever before. Only the economic resource is not enough for a country to sustain in this complex world order. Europe is a developed region in the world, is also dependent to retain their labour market. Reports show that this region has lack of young efficient labours and the number of old age dependents are increasing tremendously. To control this phenomenon countries like Germany took alternative initiatives. From the 20th century onwards Germany’s labour market depends upon ‘guest workers’ particularly from the Global South because of cheap and efficient labours. This study aims to understand the policies that the country adopted since 2005 to facilitate the skilled workers. Provided a complete idea of the evolving nature of immigrant policies and their impacts on Indian skilled migrants. The content analysis method helped to collect relevant data from primary and secondary sources like policy documents, journal and newspaper articles in order to provide a comprehensive understanding of policy impact.