I'm playing Uruguay. I have 0% taxes on everyone, The Coloradas (Laissez-faire full citizenship), Non-Socialist Trade Unions in a democracy. I will have Dutch Catholics and German Jews pop up and disappear in a few days. What is happening to my immigrants? Why aren't they staying around? And who the Hell moves to S. America from Europe and leaves in 12 days?
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They are assimilating. They become Uruguay's nationality (Platinean if I remember correctly), because the Coloradas have full citizenship as their minority policy. Since Imigrants arrive in small packs of a few hundreds, they are assimilated quickly and then incorporated into a larger Platinean POP. This is a very good thing.
Thanks for the info. I also found out if I promote them quickly they don't assimilate as quickly. I do this because I enjoy having Dutch and Saxons building my factories. (IRL, 80% of the farming output in Brasil was done by a German minority of 10%!)
Did you institute Good Healthcare before getting the Colorados into power? Immigration is great, but the growth it provides is basically linear. Once you reach a certain population it will be overtaken by the exponential natural population growth, and having the extra growth percentage GH provides will make a big difference in the end. The beauty of it is that with the Colorado's Laissez Faire policy you don't have to fund it at all, and it will still give the bonus. Of course this could be considered a bit gamey though...
That's because when you change their job, the countdown before assimilation is reseted. If you promote them to a job not done by anyone else, they will assimilate but not be agglomerated to a larger POP (since there is none). You might even face a situation where so much people from the same place emigrate to Uruguay at the same time that they form a POP too large to be assimilated, and you will be stuck with an unassimilable minority. This mostly happenned to me with French, German and Russian POPs who tend to emigrate a lot and whose country is involved into many wars, increasing the migration rate.
If you did well, you should end up with around 200 million citizens in Uruguay, with easily 95% of them platinean. Remember also that migration is extremely lessened when you are in debt.
Also the higher the level of pop the smaller the group that can be assimilated.
800 farmers can be assimilated easily but 800 clerks may never be.
800 farmers can be assimilated easily but 800 clerks may never be.