← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · jamestown
Thread ID: 7474 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-06-19
2003-06-19 10:19 | User Profile
We need more immigrants that do the work we do not like to do. We need more immigrants to support our welfare system. We need more immigrants to replace our aging society. We need more immigrants to grow our population so that we become even more powerful. We need more immigrants to revitalize our cities. We need more immigrants to culturally enrich us. We need more immigrants to fight hate. We need more immigrants to build a United Europe. We need more immigrants to make our universities more international. We need more immigrants in a global economy.
[SIZE=3]No work for Turkish immigrants, up to 70 per cent are not employed[/SIZE]
Unemployment of Turks living in Berlin has achieved dramatic proportions. In the meantime approximately 70 percent of immigrants below the age of 44 have no job, the Turkish federation announced on Friday. The situation of those below 35 is bad as well: Among them one in two is registered as a job seeker at the labour offices. Given this background the Turkish federation criticized the policy of the Federal Institution for work to cut more work providing, educational and training programmes. These meassure ensure an even stronger exclusion of migrants from the larger society. Thus the project "Meslek Evi" could no longer accept further participants in Kreuzberg. There young Turkish women can start job training as beginning pharmacist and dentist assistants. With the help of the project it was possible to reach a 98 percent passing rate in their examinations - many more than in former times. If the Federal Institution does not give up its spending cuts, "Meslev Evi" at the end of June is forced to close. As reported by the Kreuzberg Turkish information center for women, "TIO" has the same problems. The consequences of this policies are devastating, said Safter Cinar of the Turkish federation. The center assumes that unemployment will continue to rise in the coming months still. This is the result in the fact that many Turks do not possess highschool diplomas, said Cinar. In addition there are problems with relatives who immigrated from Turkey recently.