Do immigrants are "stealing" our work?
Today, at a time where capitalism is going through a crisis without precedent. At a time where 50 million people might swell the already long list of unemployed worldwide . They denied it is necessary one of the old and eternal unfortunately racist arguments notable gain popularity today. Now more than ever it appears that immigrants throughout the world cease to be mere mortals. They become beings who "steal" our work.
A survey in 1999 by the National Institute to Combat Discrimination and Xenophobia (INADI) said that 85 percent of the respondents think that immigrants cause unemployment, and only 12.5 think they do not cause the current rates of unemployment.
words, this idea is to think that we have high unemployment because " here they let anyone" . The Paraguayan, Bolivian and Chilean get a job and at the same moment you lose an Argentine. Turns out the poor Argentine citizen is a victim of the "job thieves" who steal just a job that belonged and deserved to have been born in this land and not another. Thus, the claim that society emanates longer directed towards the implementation of government policies that encourage employment, but in the immediate implementation of severe immigration restrictions.
This position has historically been spread by the most nefarious which was our country. were the real culprits of unemployment, poverty and crime, who just took care of propagating and install in the "common sense" this kind of ideological aberrations. But beware, that this definition of work as a zero sum game is not applied equally to everyone. Only the Bolivians and Paraguayans who "flooded" our country who commit such crimes. Not an American is "stolen" Argentine labor. They, like VIP members "first world" are for other things.
Proponents of the theory of "job thieves" argue that immigrants take jobs that otherwise would go to the natives. Thus, one would expect that those provinces with a greater presence of immigrants having the highest unemployment rate in the country.
Let's see how true is.
We will work with the Census of Population and Housing, 2001 , introducing the INDEC. (Note: All information contained herein was prepared prior to the arrival of Secretary Guillermo Moreno to the institution, in times where it was reliable)
play a little with the data that are inside and we made the following table, which contains the information sought.
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"We steal our work"
The table shows the distribution of the total population of Argentina by province and place of birth. Thus, for example, in the City of Buenos Aires, its 2,776,138 people, 2,459,339 were born at home and 316,739 abroad did. Then the next column shows what foreigners porcenjate part of each city or province. In this case, 11.4% is foreign. Finally, put the unemployment rate in each province in order to compare whether or not it turns out that more immigration is higher unemployment.
To facilitate the task of the reader, green painted with the 5 provinces with greater foreign porcenjate and orange that have a very small percentage of them. By comparing these with the respective unemployment rates will be faster than higher percentage of foreigners, the lower the unemployment rate in the province.
is, exactly the opposite of what theorists preach anti-immigration. Let
averages.
"We are flooded, they and thousands of children"
Other issues that need to clarify that is devilishly false is that we are being "swamped" by immigrants. To test this, we will see a chart showing the proportion of foreigners in the total population over time.
Finally, as a blow to the ideas of theologians Nazionale leave a table and a chart showing how over time the unemployment rate is not increased by the arrival of our Latin American brothers but acts exactly in reverse.
Summary : not many and they steal our work. In addition, few foreigners living in Argentina and part of the hardest working sector of our society.
