The poverty rate of immigrants born outside the European Union is at 26.9 %, at 22.8 % for all immigrants, against 14.8 % for those Europeans living in their country of origin. The disparities according to origin are highest in Greece, Belgium and Finland: the gap between the poverty rate of immigrants and the others oscillates around 20 percentage points and between 25 and 28 percentage points between persons born outside the European Union and those born in the country where they live. In both cases, the disparity in France is higher than the European average: 26.8 % of the immigrants born outside a member state of the European Union are poor, against 10.8 % for persons born in France.
These differences are due to many different factors. In certain countries, some jobs are forbidden for foreigners, who are mostly immigrants (except those who have been naturalized). Migrants from different countries do not have the same social origin or the same age average: thus, the immigrants living in France are in general less qualified for example. In addition, the conditions for social protection benefits according to nationality differ in the countries.
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