The phrase "a migrant background" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who comes from a family or community that has migrated from one place to another, often in discussions about identity, culture, or social issues.
Example: "The study focused on the educational challenges faced by students with a migrant background."
Alternatives: "a background of migration" or "an immigrant background."
Youths with a migrant background will soon outnumber native Germans in some big cities.
He added that the attackers were "exclusively" people with a migrant background.
The Deborah Cass Prize goes to new writing, by early career authors, who must have a migrant background.
This is different from other countries such as Canada, where the curriculum reflects students' country of origin and where the teachers are often from a migrant background.
The report described "several thousand people, mostly male, of a migrant background who were firing all kinds of fireworks and throwing bottles into the crowd at random".
His job is to empower members of minority communities to become active citizens in a city in which 44% of the population has a migrant background – the highest rate of bigger German cities after Frankfurt.
A quarter of young people with a migrant background lack a secondary-school diploma; less than 7% graduate from university; and as a group they are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as the national average.
The state, which is responsible for policing in Cologne, released a report describing a drugged and drunken mob of young men from a "migrant background" engaging in rampant attacks.
A Turkish migrant background and a low socio-economic status are associated with the fever concept "fearful".
This study shows that a Turkish migrant background and a low socio-economic status are associated with the fever concept "fearful".
Lost in the shuffle this year were the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad; Mexico's secretary of foreign affairs, Patricia Espinosa; and Betul Durmaz, a German teacher and author from a Turkish migrant background.
