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Friday, August 03, 2007

Immigration Flux - Searching for EU Babylon


Immigration fluxes are in my opinion one of the most important aspects for the XXI century.
They are happening now and will continue, even though governments try to build barriers and sign deportation/asylum protocols.

Today I'm focusing on Occidental Africa (Marrocos, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guine-Bissau) migration scenario: the Atlantic port for EU Babylon.

It is viewed as a threat and as an opportunity for both sides. Maybe both sides with their view balanced differently in a negative correlation. I mean the country/people that are the hosts are usually afraid and negative while the courageous immigrant sees only the golden shinny Babylon.

The country that is receiving the flux:
- More people to tax and contribute to Government income (relief the so ventilated Social Security fund breakdown, caused by the bigger aging population + less youth/children born and future tax contribute) Vs Estimated crime/insecurity increase
- More people to do the work that local people don't want to do Vs. "They are taking our jobs"
- Socio-cultural diversity, learning & sharing Vs Culture contrasts & Religion conflicts and terrorist babysitting

The people who incorporate the migration stream flux:
- More opportunities to have a better life Vs. I may turn into a XXI century slave
- Run away from war and hunger Vs. Being deported and left in the desert in the middle of nowhere in a country that simple don't care how your getting back home
- I want to have what I see on TV Vs. You'll have to pay for everything and on a general basis no one will help you and take care when you need (where's the family concept and the solidarity in the day by day life in EU?)

And in between this to are the mobs and speculators who profit from both sides selling dreams for a "cheap" price, slavering and frightening the no legal documents immigrants, selling information or translation to avoid deportation, built boats to the trip for the price of 2 person ,while they sell tickets in over-capacity for 50 persons standing up, but NEVER being in it.

For me the solution is interaction.
If you want to control it or monitor it you must create structures and conditions in the countries of origin for people to stay (work, health, safety, education), but never set a side the way the receiver countries will deal with the fluxes: more than deportation they should work and try to see if they can integrate people or received or give asylum properly.

In my conversation with occidental africans I tried to paint a picture of what is for me the EU and it´s "babylons", talked about human rights, the justice system, the tax system, warned for the risks and difficulties, the cold and unhuman social relations from European society, totaly diferent from the warm african family hughs, the better salaries but the also higher cost of living.

Some reflected a litle bit about that, but most simply didn´t care: "I want to go to Europe, I want to live properly."


But what is living properly?

NOTE: 90% of the immigrants who SURVIVED and were caught by local authorities after a 8-10 day sea journey in a small boat to the Canaries Islands with more then 50 men, women and children paying average €700 per person with almost no water, no food, no clothes, no vital space and privacy, stated explicitly that they will do it again as soon as they are able to.

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