Anthony D'Costa schreef:
I have to disagree on the last point on mass immigration. Mobility
should be a birth right, within and outside borders (and borders of
the periphery themselves are an unfortunate product of imperialism),
although managed flows of people is generally preferable by most
constituencies. Admittedly, mass immigration from a particular place
is a reflection of failure of the national economy. But the ability
of nations (governments) to transform their economy is easily said
than done. So why not make it easier for people to find ways to seek
a better life, whatever that might, instead of erecting barriers on
left-nationalist grounds. As far as impact of remittance income is
concerned it is generally positive but there is the danger of undue
dependence of such incomes on the economic vagaries of the receiving
countries.
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Copenhagen Business School
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I have heard this sentiment before, and I agree with the principles - I
think to any socialist, the idea of nation-states and their primacy
should at least at some level be abhorrent. The thing is that this all
too often leads to the following reasoning: 'nation-states shouldn't
exist, therefore we will act as if they already don't exist, and
therefore we will ignore the real effects of nation-states' functioning
or nonfunctioning on the people who live there'. Especially when it
comes to immigration this is often seen. Nonetheless I think that
despite nation-states as such being a non-socialist concept, it is still
preferable to people in the world as it is today and as it will be in
the foreseeable future that we have better nation-states rather than
worse ones. And for this reason the real impact of immigration on the
various nation-states involved should be taken into account, whether we
like nation-states or not.
Matthijs Krul
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