Thaths wrote, [on 6/17/2008 9:47 AM]:
A similar situation seems to have worked out well in the oil rich
countries of the middle east.
Too short a timeline, what?
It has been working for almost 40 years.
40 years is a pretty short time, in this context. Especially compared
with the millennia of xenophobia that Japan can point to.
And they, the middle east, have something that the rest of the world
will turn a blind eye to to get. Not so sure about other countries.
I do not know if the valuableness of oil to other countries plays much
of a role in the powers that be from "ruling a large population of
resident aliens, but not granting them citizenship, nor much political
control" .
This becomes interesting when one looks at it from the PoV of the
immigrant class. It is *they* who have made the choice to put themselves
through the grind in another land, presumably for better opportunities.
And it is *they* who will define how exactly this plays out- e.g., by
walking away in large enough numbers that alarm bells start going off in
the host country, something that is already beginning to happen with
Indians in the Middle East.
Udhay
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