IMMIGRATION STATUS: A CRY OF THE THIRD WORLD DOOR TO WEST What is the reason for immigration? Only a profound reason may push a human being uprooted from the land of his ancestors, its culture, by the affection of his loved ones for a new venture into the unknown, often hostile.
Currently, immigrants are refugees, displaced persons, the persecuted, the desperate puzzled by the uncertainties of life, people tired, exhausted and confused by the daily disappointments, the ambiguities and the punitive conditions of history. These large masses of people knocking on the door of the West are the hope of travelers willing to live better and to enjoy as the other conditions of life beyond mere survival. They claim their inherent rights to equality, peace, health, education, food and dignity of every member of human family.
Immigration is not new Man has always shown a strong propensity to migrate by moving to places of origin to go in search of better living conditions. From the middle of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, millions of Europeans moved in North America, Latin America and Australia.
"Immigration is a key factor in the formation of the American people. Between 1820 and 1860 arrived in the country of 5 million immigrants, including 1861 and 1910 were 23 million of which 9 million during the years 1901-10. Before it was German, British, Irish, Scandinavians, both men and women overseas not only driven by economic need but also by political motivations and religious culture, sometimes with capital, then it was the turn of the impoverished peasants of Italy ( 2 million in 1901-10), Austria Hungary, Russia. " (1)
era of globalization, the recent case of Romanians in Italy shows that migration flows are a major phenomenon and typical concerns of all countries and peoples. This phenomenon causes the different attitudes in the countries of the industrialized North.
Home or alarm? Most people do not explicitly hostile to foreigners (2). There are many people of goodwill opened up to many associations, some parties and some governments (3) working for the integration and coexistence. On the other hand, however, some groups appear alarmist attitudes and feelings of being overwhelmed or invaded. These equate immigration with crime and consider the immigrant as a foreign presence and threatening. A sense of emergency that comes from the narrow mind, fear of different pathological pride, from the depths tenebrous of injury by half-truths, misunderstandings and especially by the intolerable cold indifference to the misery which lies Lazarus (Luke 16.19-24).
"Most of the time the local media and the public emphasize the need for answers repressive policies against 'foreigners' such as 'dangerous individuals'" (4). Governments try to resist this pressure to migrate, establishing precise rules to filter and clear, close and patrol the borders to illegal immigration by discouraging and deterring new entry.
Consequently, the 'lucky' arrivals are often subject to exploitation by unscrupulous businessmen to the exclusion or discrimination, segregation and racist and xenophobic hostility.
Now more than ever. All of humanity must face up to reality. It would be a new offense to the human conscience if you erigesse a new Berlin Wall. By now, the only need of labor can no longer be the sole reason of the welcome. The international community, aware of its obligations towards all, is facing the scandal of endemic hunger, ignorance, systematic, infant mortality, malnutrition, deteriorating progressive standard of living, the exponential of the needy and other grotesque forms of the culture of death.
The human family can not continue to live in contradictions, lies in the dissonance and shameful.
In 2005, the Italian Caritas
reports that "the majority of 5.5 billion people live in developing countries (DCs), while the remaining 960 million are fortunate that humanity can benefit from the income of their countries Advanced Development (PSA). The world population is not evenly distributed over the globe, as it is not the total wealth of the land that is divided into far more than a disproportionate between the 'North' and 'South' " (5). E 'scandalous that
"half the world's wealth belongs to the world's population of 14.9% PSA (6).
Driven by greed and predatory instincts have to show off more and more, the rich countries are closed to the needs of the poorest. After many years of suffocation, of wicked exploitation, oppression of political and economic marauding imbavagliante, these powerful countries have built a new car more refined and thinner for better use.
The neo-colonialism. The neo-colonialism is a compressed, which increases every day the benefit of some and the regression of others.
This cage enrichment of the lucky ed'impoverimento the forgotten is dressed as a slogan of exporting democracy, peace and humanitarian aid.
In the Third World, a voice is heard every day: "Stay at home, we're thinking for you!" But how can they stay home and wait for the millions of men, women and children who go to bed hungry? They are the victims of the intolerable misery, the tragedies of extreme poverty, oppression and political persecution, armed conflict and natural disasters that knock on the door of the West claiming the bread of justice and equality
"remained good only accessible to the Western world" (7). Torn by the feeling of not being anybody, want to make sure illegal immigrants hear their cry. They are tired of living in a world where you crack it calls on the charity side to another in which wastes are dying of abundance and it is feared obesity.
Humanity is one family "Humanity is one big family." (8) Therefore,
"all earthly goods are originally intended for all" (9). Emigrate is therefore an inalienable right of every human person by virtue of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 10 December 1948:
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." (10) We are all born naked even of the name.
The disparity between the world of opulence and the poverty is therefore unacceptable under the universal destination of the riches of our planet.
summary There is therefore no limit to build and strengthen barriers or just need only respond to the workforce. If the West really wants to solve the immigration problem, should take measures urgent action against the paradox of the play of difference. It 'very urgent to solve the disaster of hunger and dire condition became chronic (11), the systematic deprivation in addition to the progressive desertification, pollution of the planet (12), degradation and natural disasters. If nothing is done, the explosion of migration is inevitable because it is rare that the privileged groups to voluntarily give up their privileges.
(1) Text Arnaldo, Democracy in America, Contemporary History, Manuals Donzelli Donzelli Editore, Rome 1997, P240.
(2) Value XVI: Caritas / Migrantes Migration, Statistical Dossier 2006, Ed.IDOS, Rome 2006, P256
(3) Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers: October 30, 2007, Services / Legislation / Immigration / 0988-11-30 Decree-flow-2007: www.interno.it
(4) BIASSONO De Rocco, What is the sociology of culture, Ed.Carocci, Rome 2002, P94.
(5) XVI Value: Caritas / Migrantes, p20.
(6) Ibid, p19
(7) CARNIVALS George, After the fall, questions of political theory in the age of declining American Ed.Liviana, Milan, 2007, p20.
(8) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the book of wisdom, Translated by Frank Paris, Ed.Newton and Compton, New York 1995, p92.
(9) John PAOLOII, Encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 30 December 1987 Ed, Pauline, Torino 1989, No. 10.
(10) Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 10 December 1948, www.riflessioni.it / encyclopedia / rights-umani.htm
(11) of the FAO Conference in Bali December 12, 2007: www.fao.org
(12) Rapport sur la santé dans le monde 2007, WHO, Programmes et projets: www.who.int/en/
Nzigamasabo Adrien