Monday, 17 January 2011

Migration.

Migration. Movement, essentially. Most commonly used in conjunction with the movement of people, but migration also occurs with:

  • Animals, such as;
Disloyal Order Of Water Buffaloes

  • Meanders;

Little Meander of a river
In the UK, since the relaxation of movement within the EU, we have seen an increased number of Eastern European migrants coming to reside in our country. Because what the migrants earn back home is so little, employers can get away with paying Polish and other Eastern European workers less than they would for a British worker, as they are still being paid more than they would be at home and are happy to work for these wages. Because of this, many British people claim that polish migrants are stealing all our jobs. Many of the jobs these migrants occupy however, are often ones which British people refuse to do anyway, and that the migrants are often benefitting our economy, not to mention their positive impact on our ageing population structure. And I really wish there were a way of changing the language on Safari from "English US" (which doesn't even exist; if you want to speak our language, do it properly) to "English UK". The inappropriately placed red lines where Americans can't spell is really beginning to annoying me. And now that little distraction has meant I can use "however" again; I feared using it in two consecutive sentences would look a bit silly. (anyway, back on track) However, there is some evidence to support claims that polish migrants are in fact stealing our jobs. If you take the case study of a particular restaurant chain (which will not be named here for legal reasons), there is evidence of discrimination against caucasian british workers, with increased levels of polish workers being employed due to a particular manager high up the food chain with polish connections providing jobs, and not just the scummy jobs that no one here wants to do, for friends in Poland when they come over, even mistreating existing British workers so that they resign and make more vacancies for their polish friends. So things are never as they quite seem with migration, and there are always more than one side to the story. So don't necessarily believe all that the Daily Mail tells you - or in this case maybe even your geography teacher. 

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