E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.2 page 20 Annex III CHARACTERISTICS OF HAMBURG'S POLICY IN REGARD TO ALIENS AND REFUGEES 1. Make-up of the foreign population 1. The number of persons not of German nationality living in Hamburg is currently about 270,000, representing in round figures some 15 per cent of the resident population. The groups most strongly represented comprise about 70,000 Turks, 33,000 persons from the former Yugoslavia, about 20,000 from Poland, about 15,000 from Iran and nearly 11,000 from Afghanistan, to mention only the most important groups. In all, the aliens residing in Hamburg represent 184 nations. 2. A noteworthy development is the approximately 80 per cent increase in the foreign population within a space of 15 years. 3. Particular stress should be laid on the presence, among the aliens living in Hamburg, of a group of 31,000 persons whose resident status, according to the current definition, is temporary. Specifically, this group is composed of about 11,500 refugees from the former Yugoslavia, about 14,000 asylum-seekers whose cases are under examination, and 6,000 de facto refugees (persons who have not applied for asylum or whose applications have been rejected but who, for humanitarian reasons, are nevertheless provisionally authorized to stay in the Federal Republic). 2. Integration policy 2.1 Objectives 4. The policy of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg in regard to aliens aims in particular at facilitating by special services the social integration of aliens who have been living legally and for many years in Hamburg and at progressively eliminating the obstacles to de jure and de facto equality. In pursuance of this policy, the Senate accords very special attention to means of countering xenophobic tendencies and social discrimination against aliens. 5. Special services are available for the welfare of aliens who, like refugees, enjoy a right of temporary stay in Hamburg. 2.2 Special integration services available 6. Apart from the provision of schooling for children of aliens in the Hamburg schools, special measures outside the framework of regular teaching are designed for the advancement of children of immigrants. There exist 900 teaching posts in connection with such measures, and to them must be added in particular the social counselling services made available to aliens by charitable associations, by the confederation of German workers' unions and by the organizations to promote social intercourse between Germans and aliens that are financed from public funds. Such activities are as a general rule concentrated in areas where there is a high proportion of non-Germans in the