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writing“Inne i huset sitter en man och väntar på sitt öde. Han har bytt identitet med en okänd man.
Nu kan vad som helst hända.”
Michelangelo Antonioni, the movie “Yrke: Reporter”
“Våld skapas när skickliga agitatorer tvingar på godtrogna människor enkelspåriga och aggresiva identiteter.”
– Amartya Sen, Identitet och våld: Illusionen om ödet
Wolf Dieter Enkelmann, director of the Institut für Wirtschaftsgestaltung (institute for business structuring) considers what makes Europe what it is and comes up with the following thoughts:
“Europeans are eccentric in the literal sense of the world. This shines vividly through most of the history of the world. But unbeknown to them. So strongly has this become second nature even to those for whom respectability has pride of place. They seek their identity in their aims, their centre in alienation. Hard-line defenders of the status quo look quite different. Europeans see chances where others see only abysses and the end of all justice. What would Europe be without the migration of peoples, without its adventurers and soldiers of fortune, its refugees and expellees, those who have betrayed their fatherland or lost their homeland, without all those who found Europe intolerable? A longing for distant shores: it is tempting to think of this as a European invention. Eccentricity is a hallmark of Christianity, but it was already written into the original mythology which the peoples of this continent invoke through their common name.”
John Reid, British home secretary, said recently: “Migration and the management of immigration is now the greatest challenge facing all European governments.” …
Global shifts are driving immigration. The weakening of border controls following the end of communism are, along with economic globalisation and the spread of low-cost air travel and telecommunications, all playing their part. …
Critics warn of the impact on low-paid natives, public services and national identity. …
As Tony Blair said in a speech this month: “People want migration controlled.” …
The net inflow into the UK reached 235,000 in the year to mid-2005, up from 47,000 in the first year of the Blair era. The British population exceeded 60m for the first time and is set to grow further, driven largely by more immigration. …
biggest inflow over the past decade has come from the British Commonwealth – especially India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Britain’s former African colonies.
new waves not only from eastern Europe but also from north Africa and war-ravaged countries such as Somalia. …
According to the Home Office, 427,000 registered to work in the UK between May 2004 and June 2006. …
Migration has increased the number of foreign-born UK residents by 30 per cent in a decade to more than 5m – or nearly 10 per cent of the population, not counting some 250,000–500,000 illegal migrants. In London, which has the world’s biggest concentration of immigrants, the foreign-born number about 30 per cent.
Danny Sriskandarajah, a migration specialist at IPPR, a pro-migration research group, says: “Far from being a burden, immigrants are vital to the public services.” …
Robert Rowthorn, a Cambridge University economics professor, has written: “Large-scale immigration of unskilled people may be beneficial for urban elites who enjoy the benefits of cheap servants, restaurants and the like, but it is not to the economic advantage of those who have to compete with these immigrants.”
FT: Migrants enrich ever more anxious host, by Stefan Wagstyl
Bernard Henri Levy om vad europeisk identitet är, man “betraktar platsen för vilka en resor kommer att utgå”.