Immigration
Immigration is another topic that has evolved in a way that makes it unfeasible (if ever had been) to deal with it on a local basis. Immigration to the U.S., for instance, is not at a faster rate now than it used to be a century ago, but dynamics and acceptance have certainly changed.
Globalization has spread the message of the appeal for better opportunities, and local solutions are not working anymore. As the Mayor of NYC Michael Bloomberg has pictured it: "It's as if we expect border control agents to do what a century of communism could not: defeat the natural market forces of supply and demand and defeat the natural human desire for freedom and opportunity. You might as well sit on your beach chair and tell the tide not to come in".
Globalization has spread the message of the appeal for better opportunities, and local solutions are not working anymore. As the Mayor of NYC Michael Bloomberg has pictured it: "It's as if we expect border control agents to do what a century of communism could not: defeat the natural market forces of supply and demand and defeat the natural human desire for freedom and opportunity. You might as well sit on your beach chair and tell the tide not to come in".
posted by J. Oriol Rius i Sabaté at 3:30 PM
1 Comments:
The question is, however, should immigration be encouraged just to add cheap or blue collared labor to a hungry market? This was and still is a major mistake in Europe. It causes a subculture to isolate itself from the mainstream because there are no, or very few, players in the upper league in those communities.
Yet another curious phenomenon is that those countries who export skilled or unskilled labor in high numbers to contribute to the economy of developed countries are not open to immigration themselves.
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