Migrants and development 1
People like to say we should help migrants in their own countries rather than allow poor people to come rich countries.
When you consider that the money working migrants send back home to their families (remittances) in some countries amount to more than foreign aid, domestic tax revenues, or export earnings, this distinction makes no sense.
The solution must be to think creatively about how to channel some of this cash directly into development. On openDemocracy, Chukwu Emeka-Chikezie reports on a United Nations meeting on migration, and highlights some of the questions and political solutions that are popping up around the world. He calls on migrants to begin to organize, so they can participate in negotiations without NGO proxies.
At the meeting, Koffi Annan said: “Just a few years ago, many people did not think it possible to discuss migration at the United Nations. Governments, they said, would not dare to bring into the international arena a topic on which their citizens are so sensitive.”
If you ask me, it’s immigration people have a hard time discussing, not migration. It’s nearly impossible sometimes to see things from the perspective of the migrant. The more we are able to think about solutions on a global scale, the better.
I hate to talk about common places. but ain’t ot a bitch that many of the developed nationd thrived thanks to migrants? Hollywood made a big issue out foreigners arriving at governor’s osland, and the land of the free and all you can eat buffets? Fuck the free world! If it wasn’t for the 4 billions desperate and talented workforce of the world, capitalism wouldn’t be possible. If this train of thought was preposterous, then explain to me, where o where does the victorious stand? How are the fattest of the land able to look ahead from their own milieu? It is from standing in a hill made of the useful carcasses of mojados. See, developed nations and its nationals are weak. Their weakness lies in their estabilitties: technologies, open markets, security meassures, all are designed with the sole purposse of making their life peachier.
i’m glad my life is full of uncertainties. Developed nations seem to forget that they made this game. its name is economy. Its language: uncertainty. So this matter of migration is the cornerstone of production, because a system that provides its elements with everything they need, creates a weak workforce, uncapable of sustainin the necesities of a consumer apettite.
In layman’s terms: you create the desease, but now the virus is driving you crazy. This is what happens when global action is as biased as it is now. The old argument of chicken and egg…