The phrase "migrant background" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a person's cultural and ethnic identity as someone who has migrated from one country or region to another. Example: The school has a diverse student population, with many students coming from a migrant background.
9% of school pupils in Italy (802,844) come from a migrant 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.
The number of people with a migrant background living in the country is at a record high.
Men and women with a migrant background have been involved in the radio since its onset and today programmes are aired in more than 20 languages.
I think there are huge problems with the integration of people of migrant background and Muslim faith into most west European societies.
Last year, the Federal Statistical Office said that roughly 18.6 million people in Germany had a migrant background, or 23percentt of the population.
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".
Let us ensure that children of migrant background get a good education in the language, history and politics of the European country in which they live, and are then equipped to do useful work and contribute fully as citizens.
