“…However, the spatial patterns of demographic change and population shrinkage as well as of foreign migration to Germany are far from being clear-cut and stable (see Figure 1). In recent years, Germany-like the United States and other Western European countries-has experienced a period of significant reurbanisation (Dembski et al, 2019;Glaeser & Gottlieb, 2006), involving the movement of particularly highly educated young adults to large cities (Siedentop, Zakrzewski, & Stroms, 2018) and a drastically declining and ageing population in many small cities and rural areas, especially in eastern Germany (Gans & Schlömer, 2014a;Sander, 2014). Given that foreign migrants have been strongly concentrated in large western German cities in the past (Gans & Schlömer, 2014b) and that international immigration has significantly contributed to the population growth of the largest cities (Gans, 2000(Gans, , 2018, one could assume that the increasing net immigration rates since the mid-2000s have reinforced the above-mentioned patterns of spatial divergence (Bucher, Martina, & Schlömer, 2002).…”