TOPIC 1.
How to prevent immigration from your home country to another?
In 1933, Arnold van Gennep already said “we live in full in what I will call the globalization of humanity ”. Globalization since the 15th century has internationalized and intensified economic, financial, cultural, but also human exchanges . The high demand for workers is reinforced by the demographic ageing of the OECD countries, by the development of emerging countries and the international competition between states around an economy of knowledge and innovation. In 2013, 232 million of migrants - approximately 3% of the world's population - were living abroad. Since 2010, and in particular this year, Europe is facing a major migration crisis. Thus, they …show more content…
An immigrant is a person born of foreign parents from abroad, and resident in a territory other than that of his birth – here, French. The United Nations define an emigrant as “a person who freely decides to settle in a country for a duration of 12 months minimum”, “to the purposes of improving their material and social conditions, their future prospects or those of their families ”. Thus, in this essay, tourists, students and political refugees won’t be classified as migrants.
Europe has long been a migratory land. These are 60 million Europeans who immigrated to America between 1850 and 1914. However, France was little affected by the phenomenon. It is the only European country to have never had a great period of emigration in the contemporary period. If, currently, migration issues occupy an important place in society and French politics, it should be noted that migrations are addressed in their “incoming” dimension. Departure of French people for another country is a taboo subject. This is mainly explained by the history of France: the country has experienced two mass exoduses – between 1685 and 1715 with the flight of 200 000 protestants, and after the French Revolution with the flight of 150 000 French, from the Court of Louis XVI, the royalist troops and nobility – which remain painful …show more content…
This phenomenon appears to be accelerating during the last two years: last year, they are more than 7000 people who immigrated to Israel, against 3340 in 2013. By 2015, the Jewish Agency provides the arrival of 8000 or 8500 French people. The reasons for these returns are many: the Israelite economic growth (3.2% against 0.3% for France), the lack of security translated by the murders by Mohammed Merah and the terrorist attacks of January 2015 in Paris, the rise of the National Front and anti-Semitism, the support of a big part of French population for Palestine, a feeling of belonging to Israel strengthened by anti-Semitism and the Zionist policy organized by the Israeli Government... Solutions here are difficult to implement. Improve the economic situation would first solder again French population and reduce the struggle between the various communities. Then, we must fight against racism in all its forms – that's a deep French society – by strengthening for example judicial punishments but also by an accountability of politicians who constantly throw oil on fire about this subject. Finally, in order to never relive the events of January, we should be preventing extremism – whether it is Catholic, Jewish, Muslim or not religious – and enhancing the effectiveness of French