Timeline for Rationale for illegal immigration to Europe?
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| Jan 9 at 17:15 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | Oh, I agree there too. However, one last thing to keep into account: many immigrants who managed to pay those thousand dollar fees weren't necessarily on the bottom rung of society in their origin country - they may have had a maid for example - and there the comparison may swing the other way. | |
| Jan 9 at 17:10 | comment | added | Wag the mainstream media dog | @ItalianPhilosophers4Monica regarding the comparative costs: 1) one does not necessarily adopt high standard of living typical of the host country (e.g., sharing apartment, walking or riding bicycle, not moving during vacations, eating simple food, etc.) 2) one's family/extended family/village may stay back at home, and supporting them incurs little additional cost. | |
| Jan 9 at 16:52 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | This looks like a pretty solid answer. While I agree that not taking into account comparative costs overstates the case, there are also factors strengthening this A. For example, push come to shove, you will be getting free emergency health care in Europe - that's not something guaranteed in many poor countries. You will also not be left to literally starve. You do need to pay for heat in winter, which isn't typically a problem in source countries. (But more and more source countries will be facing summer heat waves risks, annulling that). | |
| Jan 8 at 17:11 | comment | added | Wag the mainstream media dog | @LioElbammalf what I didn't point out in the answer, is that there's a certain level of disparity that triggers massive migration. There's hardly any influx of illegal economic migrants from post-Soviet space, Turkey and other territories close to EU with lower, but still acceptable level of life. | |
| Jan 8 at 16:24 | comment | added | Lio Elbammalf | "anyone working legally in western Europe earns in a month at least as much as the immigrants escaping poverty need to survive in a year:" Yes but the costs are so much higher - if you want to compare you need to balance local costs. It may be that you earn as much in a month in Europe as you need for a year in Madagascar but European higher rent, food, travel costs leave you with a much smaller disparity (not claiming there isn't still one, but the answer as it stands exaggerates). | |
| Jan 8 at 14:32 | history | edited | Wag the mainstream media dog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 8 at 14:24 | history | answered | Wag the mainstream media dog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |