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Hi Rajan
I have done this reply at speed but please will you help me to discover with
some precision, how many migrants have moved into Goa in say the past five
years to be deemed excessive, "unacceptable and undesirable." Also, the
occupational range (if possible) of the ever so despised migrants? Are the
wealthy migrants seeking to invest in Goa also despised, unacceptable and
undesirable especially as they inevitably make life pretty hard for local Goans
to purchase properties for themselves because of inflated prices?
In most countries and across countries, migrants always move in search of
jobs. Over 200 million are doing so right now internationally.There is
interesting statistical data illustrating the parallels between the
availability of work and the numbers attracted to such work. When jobs decline,
so is there a reduction of migrants and vice versa. Is this not also true for
Goa but allowing for some variance in this general rule because of the pleasant
ambiance of Goa?
I can say with some certainty that new migrants into the UK (as also in
America) have kept the economy buoyant and that the economic surplus generated
by them is very considerable as we have in the UK, a large mainly indigenous
underclass without appropriate skills and not attracted to work of any kind.
Today, this figure is some 2.6 million (out of 24 million potential workers)
living on disability benefits with our governments for years recognising the
bogus element in this huge figure but seriously failing to deal with it apart
from letting more immigrants to do the many available jobs that indigenous
people refuse to do. Government and employers also find new immigrants
attractive to keep wages down of course.
So on this last point, please, will you enlighten me with some hard facts
that, there is not some parallel between the UK and Goa on the migrant issue
even though there is a safety net of welfare benefits at this end that actually
'permits' some not to work and thus live on benefits for a generation or two?
Is it not true that appropriate indigenous labour with the right skills is not
available in Goa for a variety of reasons, thus creating a vacuum for migrant
labour to fill? I have no axe to grind on this issue but economic and
sociological determinants re the direction and intensity of migrant populations
do not seem to tally with the picture presented about the migrants in Goa in
some of your posts. I merely seek to be enlightened on this seemingly vexatious
issue. So, in my ignorance, I simply ask if in the short term, the issue of low
skill migrants eking a living in Goa is not resolvable by making proper
sanitary and residential provisions available to them instead
of perhaps demonising the very people who are definitely helping the economy?
Regards
Cornel
"Rajan P. Parrikar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To Goanet -
Frederick Noronha wrote:
>* Their large numbers are bad enough, religion be damned (referring to
>Muslims, part of the Hindutva propaganda about "Muslim numbers")
No, Mr. Noronha, let me slow it down for you.
The numbers of migrants are so large right now that their
religion is of no consequence. Even if 100% of the migrants
were trishul-wielding, Jai Shri Ram-shouting Hindu fundies,
their numbers in Goa would still be unacceptable and
undesirable.
