Comments on: Immigrants are a global problem https://didacticmind.com/2019/07/immigrants-are-global-problem.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 29 Aug 2020 12:33:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Didact https://didacticmind.com/2019/07/immigrants-are-global-problem.html#comment-1426 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 07:37:10 +0000 #comment-1426 In reply to Nikolai Vladivostok.

I can well believe the points that you raise about Eritrea. All I can say there is what I usually say about the Dark Continent – "Africa Wins Again!!!". There is not the least bit of use in trying to deal with the dysfunctional African societies – and it is an even dumber idea to try to bring people from dysfunctional societies to functional ones.

The Bangladeshi influx into Calcutta is relatively recent, as far as I know. It's happened within the last 10 years or so, as the medical trade in Calcutta has really picked up in that time. It's practically the only growth industry in the city.

Bangladeshi immigrants were always an issue, but ever since Mamata Banerjee's government came to power, the state administration treated the Muslim illegals coming in with kid gloves, and also treated the Muslim population of the city very gently for fear of angering them as a voting bloc. It's all politics and electioneering at this point.

]]> By: Nikolai Vladivostok https://didacticmind.com/2019/07/immigrants-are-global-problem.html#comment-1425 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 01:21:39 +0000 #comment-1425 ". . .unless of course the country in question happens to be, oh, say, Somalia, Syria, or Afghanistan."
Some Eritreans freely move to Somalia and Afghanistan for work, often for UN agencies or similar, as they are the only educated people who need the money badly enough to take the risk, such are the poor opportunities at home. I have not heard of any in Syria but they run all the businesses and agency paperwork in South Sudan. The only other foreigners there are military types and white saviours.
No one flees to Eritrea. There are a handful confined to a camp who came from Somaliland years ago who have since agreed to go back. However, the Eritrean government won't let them go because that would require that they officially recognize them as refugees before they leave. You can see why things do not run smoothly there.
As for Calcutta, when I was there the poor immigrants seeking a better life were from Bihar. The Bangladeshis mostly came after the partition of East Pakistan. Is this influx a new thing or did I just not notice it?

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