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I'm sorry to hear about your experience and as an American who lived in a few European cities I know what you mean, some neighborhoods are decidedly un-European
by atlasunshrugged 5y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your experience and as an American who lived in a few European cities I know what you mean, some neighborhoods are decidedly un-European, but I would partially blame that not on the immigrants but on policies that bring in so many at once. Of course there is no need to assimilate when there is a huge neighborhood of people just like you... imagine the driving culture if you brought a million Cairo cab drivers to Singapore? But if you bring 50 a year, they assimilate. That said, I'm pretty sure most economists (other than Borjas perhaps, whose seminal work on the Mariel boatlift seems critically flawed) would broadly disagree with you about the net economic benefits being negative and I would love if you could share that paper.
https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2017/07/13/a-world-of-free-movement-would-be-78-trillion-richer https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2017/07/13/a-world-of...
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/what-mariel-boatlift-cuban-refugees-can-teach-us-about-economics-immigration https://www.cgdev.org/blog/what-mariel-boatlift-cuban-refuge...
- jgb1984 5y agoIt's in Dutch, and can be found here: http://www.demo-demo.nl/files/Grenzeloze_Verzorgingsstaat.pdf http://www.demo-demo.nl/files/Grenzeloze_Verzorgingsstaat.pd... Of course take things with a grain of salt, as always, but it's quite a hefty and well documented piece of research.
- doteka 5y agoFor anyone missing the required context here: The “Renaissance institute” that sponsored this “research” is a far-right think tank associated with the FvD, which can be charitably described as far right nationalists, or less charitably as a bunch of actual racists and fascists.
- jgb1984 5y agoAh yes, before you know it we're off slinging Hitler accusations left and right. If you've got counter arguments related to the paper, you're more than welcome to share them. But discarding the entire thing because it comes from a political direction which isn't your own is hardly a productive attitude.
- doteka 5y agoThere’s political directions and there’s literal fascism. My grandparents gave their lives in the fight against this rotten ideology, and anyone who supports it and gives it credibility can go right to hell in my book.
- jgb1984 5y agoLol yes of course, because debating and researching the impact of mass immigration makes us all fascists, clearly!