Incarceration Rates: Foreign-Born Nationals are Under-represented in the Anglosphere but are Over-represented in Europe [OC]
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Incarceration Rates: Foreign-Born Nationals are Under-represented in the Anglosphere but are Over-represented in Europe [OC]
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Source: [Financial Times: The Anglosphere has an advantage on immigration](https://www.ft.com/content/c6bb7307-484c-4076-a0f3-fc2aeb0b6112)
On interesting discrepancy between Europe vs the Anglosphere is that foreign-born nationals are much less likely to end up being incarcerated in Anglosphere countries like the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland relative to their total population, however in every Western European country that isn’t part of the British Isles, foreign-born nationals are much more likely to end up being incarcerated relative to their total population.
Actually seems quite equally represented in UK
I was curious about total incarceration rate. Here it is for the countries in the chart. So of the the five lowest foreign-born prison population percentages (the five countries at the bottom of OP’s chart), four of them have the four highest *total* incarceration rates.
i.e. the lowest foreign-born incarceration rates are associated with countries that tend to incarcerate more people than average. However, the opposite correlation (*high* foreign born incarceration and *low* total incarceration) doesn’t really show up here.
https://preview.redd.it/bcmw4egaet4f1.png?width=934&format=png&auto=webp&s=2dfdeba9d60e80e4d1d771060d1f91df5caa7e63
source: [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate) via [here](https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total)
Anglo countries are physically harder to reach for migrants from “bad” countries.
Their migration paths are easier to control and curate, favoring “good” migration.
Surprised at how big the foreign born population is in the Anglosphere, I expected it to be not more than 10%.
For Australia, I think it would be because it’s incredibly difficulty to migrate here and we are extremely picky on who we let in.
And illegal immigration is almost non existent. We take full advantage of our island geography and after a few years of turning boats around or putting boat people in a lifeboat with just enough fuel to get back to Indonesia/wherever else they sailed from – then burning their boat – the boats have basically stopped.
The Anglosphere is basically all separated by water.
Im curious what the data are like for the 14/27 EU nations not included in OPs plot.
Australia can be explained by our insane rates of incarcerating our indigenous population
The Anglosphere countries generally do a better job at integrating immigrants than most European countries.