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Hi Frederick
The perennial problem is that people generally do not look beyond their
noses when it comes to being fearful of outsiders entering their geographical
space. How on earth local Goans can be critical of new labour entering Goa
while loads of Goans have gone all over the world as new labour is a mystery to
me. With some 200 million plus people on the move worldwide in search of better
prospects, we will keep hearing about these people "taking our jobs and
spoiling the place" when this is generally questionable. The reality is that
local labour unavailability in many fields is fed by immigrant labour and this
has been so in the UK for the best part of 60 years. Apart from what you heard,
an excellent BBC (Panorama) programme told us of the million or so 17 to 20
year indigenous youth who were not in work nor in education. They were happy to
live on the weekly job seekers allowance and had honed in skills to avoid work.
In contrast, the Poles and other Eastern Europeans were
happy to take on the first job they could find, live in horrendous
accommodation and in next to no time become socially mobile. Re the Portuguese
travails here, many are poorly educated and in menial work. There is
purportedly, 10% illiteracy in Portugal today. Sadly, Portuguese workers and
other Eastern Europeans are taking the brunt of racism in some parts like
Lincoln when engaged in agricultural work. Some also pick cockles on the
treacherous sands of Morecombe Bay. However, there are others who are engaged
in white-collar and professional work.
The problem in most economically buoyant places is that a vacuum is created
by the lack of local labour. Government and private industry fills the vacuum
with foreign labour to the chagrin of local people who wouldn't do the work in
the first place. Foreign labour keeps wages down in the interests of Government
and private enterprise. In turn, the low-quality media, plays on this issue by
saying how bad things are in order to sell papers to the conservative wing.
Currently, in the UK, the issue is prominent as an election is in the offing. I
have heard the same old stuff about immigration for 45 years! However, there is
also info about the substantial economic contribution made by many (but not
all) immigrant groups.
Regards
Cornel
"Frederick [FN] Noron ha * फà¥à¤°à¥à¤¡ रिठन à¥à¤°à¥à¤à¤¯à¤¾"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Last evening, while on the Net, by some chance I ran into these
articles about "outsiders" (Portuguese settlers in this case) in
Norfolk, and how things had changed in that area. Today, while tuned
into the BBC with some radio-features playing in the background, I
heard about the changes taking place in Alberta, due to in-migration,
and the many changes wrecked on that place.
