This is a massive issue and one that no one in charge seems capable of handling. The EU is, through its indecision and a broken moral compass that's spinning like a top, being played for fools by human traffickers whose casual disregard for basic human decency rivals the slave traders of the old middle passage. Recent reports have indicated that most of the traffickers no longer even bother giving their boats (and I use that term with extreme charity) sufficient fuel to reach European shores...they simply wait until the overcrowded hulks run out of fuel halfway there before informing the European authorities in the firm knowledge that they'll try to rescue the passengers (and while their plight in those moments can and should elicit one's sympathy, we shouldn't forget that most of them are far from innocent in all this, as few of them appear to be genuine refugees) and promptly bring them to Europe.
What's even more baffling is that Australia has already admirably demonstrated what's necessary to end this crisis: save them, then refuse to let them in and broadcast this uncompromising policy throughout the region. Until the EU does this or something similar, it is effectively abetting some of the most odious criminals on the planet, as well as indirectly contributing to the undermining of European borders and by extension Europe herself.
What a mess.
Quote: (04-25-2015 06:56 AM)mikado Wrote:
Suppose that
- I paid my way to Europe/USA to study
- I paid the same tuition fees foreigners had (often more, since I could not qualify for a grant from the country, as my parents weren't living there)
- I followed the same classes, and (presumably) acquired the same skills
- I became overqualified for A LOT of jobs in my country of origin (pretty likely situation)
- I can compete in terms of skills with a native.
You really think I shouldn't deserve a chance in the employment market?
Certainly you should, provided you progress towards integrating with the culture of your new homeland, and provided that that country exercises the right to dictate who can and can't enter in the first place (a right accorded to all sovereign states). I think the issue is that the two conditions above are simply not being met throughout Europe at the moment: integration seems to be a failing project and entire cities display fracture and division where nothing of the sort existed even a generation ago; moreover the EU denies its member states control over their own borders...in principle this is distasteful, in practice it's worse.
I have a great deal of admiration for immigrants who both contribute and integrate, it's not an easy achievement and I'm sure a lot of forum members know this first-hand. Also there are a lot of success stories of this sort (the Uganda Asians who did so well in the UK after being unceremoniously and foolishly kicked out by Idi Amin, for instance), and we should absolutely learn from them.
Speaking more broadly, immigration is an issue worthy of serious discussion and there are lots of valid answers to these questions...however the troubling thing is that the European intelligentsia's obsession with multiculturalism, and therefore cultural nihilism, has inverted the rightful formula and irrationally posited that Europe is a tabula rusa, and not a home for the cultures and peoples of Europe. It was wrong when Europe attempted to remake the world into its own image during the age of colonialism, and it is wrong now that the left is perniciously and mendaciously trying to remake Europe into an image of the world.
But that last paragraph is rather unrelated to your query.
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The argument of the low wage that foreigners take may still held for the "poorer" jobs, relatively without a high level of studies/qualifications to exerce them, but when a relatively big company needs to recruit an engineer, I doubt they will take a foreigner just because he might ask for 2000 euros per month less than a native.
I can only go by what I know in the US, but I don't doubt that in the slightest. Why wouldn't a company save 2000 euros each month per employee? It's free money, and companies don't need the faintest encouragement to take the like with vigor.