The new head of the U.N.'s migration agency said Monday that the private sector is “desperate” for their countries to take in migrants to mop up labor shortages, especially in the West — endeavoring to steer a narrative away from reticence and suspicion about migrants in many parts of the world.
Amy Pope, the first woman to head the International Organization for Migration, sought to play up the economic benefits of migration for rich nations with aging populations and declining workforces — in the face of “build-the-wall” rhetoric in the United States to block migrants from Latin America and right-wing movements in Europe that want to keep foreigners out.
”We hear from … the private sector globally, but especially in Europe and in North America, that they are desperate for migration in order to meet their own labor market needs and in order to continue to fuel innovation within their own companies,” Pope, who is American, told reporters.
She said the evidence was “fairly overwhelming” that migration benefits economies by filling jobs, powering innovation or “fueling the renovation or revitalization of aging communities.”
Immigration has a massive net gain for countries. It’s the racists who don’t like them.
Immigration is a massive net gain for companies. It’s a massive net loss for workers wages as demand lowers, leading to entire industries of exploitation like agricultural labor.
That is not the fault of immigration, and immigration should be encouraged. They’re no different then the people born there.
Your right it’s not the fault of immigration, but until we solve capitalism we shouldn’t be promoting it.
No you’re just being outright racist. If you think we should stop immigration because of worker exploitation then maybe also concern yourself with the workers at home being exploited as well.
Calling opposition to immigration racist is as dishonest as calling opposition to Israel antisemitic.
Not to mention the biggest groups of immigrants here are the British.
And that’s exactly what I’m doing. I saw the worker power and wage growth that was starting to happen by the end of lockdowns before the world “had” to suddenly and rapidly reopen because companies were hurting for cheap labour.
Here’s your “pro-worker” immigration take:
“We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around. It’s a dynamic that has to change.”