Cempaka Belanda: Why labour migrants are good for the Netherlands

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

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“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Why labour migrants are good for the Netherlands

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Choose whether or not you want to be Dutch, that’s the credo of Minister of Integration Eberhard van der Laan. But with this emphasis on the Netherlands and the Dutch language, Van der Laan is closing the door on a temporary migration policy.

Commuter train

That, say various experts, is bad for the Dutch economy. In the migration debate in parliament, Minister Van der Laan made his position crystal clear: migrants must “choose for the Netherlands and have the moral obligation to adapt themselves”. It’s expected of newcomers that they make an extra effort to obtain a place in Dutch society. But for some migrants it’s better that they don’t become naturalised citizens, but remain temporary migrants.

Restrictive migration policy

History teaches us that for countries with a restrictive migration policy one solid rule applies: once in, there’s no way out. Also migrant workers who really want to return home after a time should think carefully before leaving about what would happen if they ever wanted to come back.

"The more restrictive the policy, the more permanent the migration", says Hein de Haas, researcher on international migration at Oxford University. "I stand up for the existence of temporary migration, and the possibility for migrants to come back to the country later. If you don't allow that, then you practically force migrants to settle. The higher the obstacles, the higher the investment, the less people will want to go back."

Temporary migration

After decades, there is finally serious discussion again in the Netherlands about a concrete policy on temporary migration. Last year, the policy document Migration and Development was published, and this spring the Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs published its advice on temporary labour migration. In the period 2015-2035 a structural shortage is expected in the Dutch labour market. Temporary migration can be useful as a “supplementary instrument” according to the Committee. But this advice hardly figures in the minister’s policy.

Illegality

The objections to temporary migration are partly fed by concerns that the temporary migrants won’t go home and will disappear from view as illegal immigrants. But the experience with temporary migration in other countries suggests otherwise. Melissa Siegel, researcher on migration at the University of Maastricht, cites Spain and Canada as two countries which have experimented with temporary labour migration. The possibility of being able to come back to the host country for a further term after the end of a contract is the key to success. In other words, the option of re-immigration.

A policy that makes labour migration possible and attractive also lessens the enforced choice for illegality. Melissa Siegel is positive about that:

"We see it more and more; the more you try to control people, the more problems you have. The best way of keeping people illegally in the country is to close the door to migrants. So long as you give people the right to go in and out of the country legally, people will go of their own accord."

False picture

For decades the Netherlands experienced an immigration trauma that had its roots in an unsuccessful experiment with the temporary migration of guest workers in the 1960s and 1970s. The picture was painted that a great deal of the guest workers settled permanently in the Netherlands following the oil crisis of 1973.

Rinus Penninx, Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam, modifies that picture. Until 1973, many temporary guest workers shuttled between the Netherlands and their country of origin. After 1973, nine out of ten migrants went back. Of those who remained, many were indeed Turks and Moroccans: they chose the protection of a prosperous country above going home.

Motivation

Many migrants, especially the young, motivated males who crowd around the gates of Europe, want to earn money here in order to later on build a life in their country of origin, emphasizes Melissa Siegel.

Minister Van der Laan’s tough immigration policy, and the obligation for migrants to "choose" the Netherlands, therefore hinders an effective policy for temporary migration. That will do nothing to help Dutch society as it faces the prospect of a serious shortage of labour in the near future.

Laurens Nijzink and Johan Huizinga, Radio Netherlands

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