We must also talk about the structure of our institutions, and about the welfare and benefit-oriented state. We have managed to turn a part of society, the people who were willing to take the greatest risks and leave everything behind for an uncertain future, into the most passive segment of society. The situation is different in the United States, with its market-oriented immigration policy. In New York, 90 percent of first-generation immigrants are employed. It’s less than 50 percent in Amsterdam. Turkish immigrants in Germany are in a similar situation. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,654934,00.html