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Thread ID: 18763 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-06-22
2005-06-22 13:47 | User Profile
The nationalists must have someone scared when they have to come up with the following drivel.
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[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4117300.stm[/url]
BBC NEWS Migration is 'good for everybody' Migrants can bring many benefits to both the countries they move to and the ones they leave behind, according to a major new study.
The International Organization for Migration looked at the costs, benefits and disadvantages of global migration.
It found that common concerns about the negative effects of migration on jobs and welfare costs are often unfounded.
The IOM says there are up to 192 million migrants and many bring a wide range of economic and other benefits.
Reciprocity
"We are living in an increasingly globalised world that can no longer depend on domestic labour markets alone.
This is a reality that has to be managed," said Brunson McKinley, head of the IOM.
"If managed properly, migration can bring more benefits than costs."
The IOM cites a British report showing that, between 1999 and 2000, migrants in the UK contributed $4bn (ã2.1bn) more in taxes than they received in benefits.
Migrants also make a significant contribution to the economies of their home states, the report says, with returning cash flows sometimes exceeding official development aid.
Filling spaces
Rather from taking jobs from local workers, the report says that migrants tend to fill spaces at the poles of the labour market - working both in low-skilled, high-risk jobs and highly skilled, well-paid employment.
MIGRATION FACTS Migrants represent 2.9% of the world population Almost half of them (48.6%) are women The number of international migrants more than doubled 1970-1990 Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader.
"There's very little evidence in many of the Western countries that are receiving migrants that migrants are substituting the local workforce," the report's editor, Irena Omelaniuk, added.
And migrant workers sent back more than $100bn (ã55bn) to their countries of origin in 2004. In fact, the report estimates that more than double this figure may also be sent through informal channels.
Morocco, the report says, received $2.87bn (ã1.57bn), or 8% of its GDP, from money sent home by migrant workers in 2002 and remittances sent to the Philippines accounted for almost 10% of its GDP.
The report says that, although many skilled workers abandon their home countries seeking higher pay abroad, many can be encouraged to return home bringing acquired skills and experience - a process of "brain gain".
"Trends suggest a greater movement towards circular migration, with substantial benefits to both home and host societies," the report says.
The IOM says that migrants make up less than 3% of the global population and that almost half of all migrants are women.
It says that although the number of migrants has risen, from 82m in 1970 to around 190m people today, some countries - including Asia and Africa - have seen their proportional share of migrants decline.
The most popular destination countries for migrants include the US - which alone is home to more than 20% of the world's migrants - and Russia, home to almost 8% of global migrants.
Story from BBC NEWS: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/4117300.stm[/url]
Published: 2005/06/22 04:23:33 GMT
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2005-06-22 14:58 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Blond Knight] Migrants can bring many benefits to both the countries they move to and the ones they leave behind, according to a major new study. [/QUOTE] Their trash is our treasure.
In the age of "diversity is our strength" silly slogans, people should believe their eyes and experiences and totally ignore televitz kvetching.
2005-06-22 19:05 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Blond Knight] ** The International Organization for Migration** looked at the costs, benefits and disadvantages of global migration.
It found that common concerns about the negative effects of migration on jobs and welfare costs are often unfounded.[/QUOTE] This group obviously approached this 'major study' with no predetermined outcome in mind. :rolleyes:
2005-06-23 05:55 | User Profile
I thought this sight had some pretty interesting statements about "migration". [url="http://frostywooldridge.com/articles/art_2004jul09.html"]http://frostywooldridge.com/articles/art_2004jul09.html[/url]
This is an excerpt from a book the web sites author is reviewing:
[indent][font=Arial][size=2] Chittum talks about Phases of Civil War II:[/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=2] 1. Tribalization, or the undermining of the concept of citizenship; [/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=2] 2. The creeping loss of democracy to private, governmental institutions and international bodies;[/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=2] 3. Gradually falling wages;[/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=2] 4. The slow decay of infrastructure in our cities and the abandonment by Americans and their replacement by minorities wedded to welfare and affirmative action;[/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=2] 5. Growing legal and illegal immigration to transform America into a typical Third World country;[/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=2] 6. Massive drive for gun control to cripple military potential from the working class;[/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=2] 7. Cooperation of the mass media to dumb down the population.[/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=2] Near the end of the book he makes projections that you can see happening right now:
1.Shrinking hourly wage;
2. More immigrants than Americans;
3. Foreigners hold most Federal Debt;
4. Twenty million Third World slums on our borders known as ââ¬Ëcolonias;ââ¬â¢
5. Manufacturing jobs moved out of the USA making it impossible for us to make or sell anything to the world;
6. Republican and Democratic politicians refusing to deal with the immigration crisis. Worse,
both parties aid and abet it;
7. Growing power of advocates of Aztlan or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas by Mexico.
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[/indent] [font=Arial][size=2]This last bit sounds way to familiar. [/size][/font]