The Irony of the Economic Migrants against Refugees: Failure of World Leadership.

A few months back the world press was full of economic migrants trying to get into the UK from France. Many have braved the sea from Libya and through Libya to try and make it to Europe. People are distraught with poverty in their countries and are looking for better places to live in. Incidentally those who do are usually the less skilled or graduates who fail to find jobs in their respective countries. It's not common for those who can find a job home to yearn to live abroad. Of course I must accept that the developed countries have all those marvels for us from poor countries to see and admire and everybody would wish to see them given a chance. Therefore every African would wish to visit the developed west. Of course with control of the media the western countries make it only to attractive for Africans to want to go there by showing only poverty and wars in African countries.  Before our minds left these migrants largely from Africa another wave hit the mass media. This time not immigrants but refugees!! All of a sudden a flow of people hits the world. Refugees fleeing Syria and now many Arab countries is what we see in our living rooms if you have a TV. Unlike economic migrants who are locked out these are welcomed with open arms!
Both groups are a creation of the rich west one in a subtle manner other out of massive aggression. The migrants fleeing Africa and parts of Asia are fleeing from poverty.this poverty is a function of many factors but one of them is the west not allowing these countries to trade with them . There is no level playing field and there are a host of restrictions that make poor Africa unable to trade with the rich West. Given their squalid conditions how do you expect poor African to meet the health requirements for certain export to the West. Given their lack of education and inability to focus on science how do you expect poor Africa to be able export any product to the West.

Africa is known for wars and military coups. There is literature that most of the coups are inspired by the west, look at what happened in Egypt recently. Gaddaffi, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah. There is something to do with CIA or something like that when this happens and there are the famous wars in Africa who is funding them? Who is funneling the wars there? Under such conditions leadership in Africa has been a captive to western interests and have failed to deliver the required grant. This leads to poor Africans who desire better conditions to want to relocate to those countries where the conditions are better.

This will continue for a s long as there is no development in Africa, Africa cannot grow without selling anything to the rich west. The merging economies of Asia including the power house today China had to look to the West for growth Africa cannot be different.
The Arabian refugees entering in Europe is a different story. Many critics of western policies attribute the current crisis to the American invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration. That was the fatal mistake that was made that today reverberates throughout the Middle East. Invading Iraq according to the economist of September was to satisfy Israel and weaken whoever was intone region who could threaten Israel. The desire to contain Egypt which is now fixed, Syria which so far they have failed to fix and Iran which they fear to fix is what is causing the current refugee crisis. The bombing of Syria and creation and support of various fighting groups has torn the country apart. This has led to refugees in Lebanon and other neighboring countries. About half a million people have moved to Europe from Middle East. It is also reported that over 4 million people have been displaced in Syria.

But these refugees are welcome unlike the economic migrants! They are welcome for various reasons. One that the West created the problem by bombing these countries if they don't address the challenge it may soon backfire on them. The level of destruction of these countries is unprecedented. Two, migration of young productive people can be good for the nations in the long run. In the short run they have to house fed and generally looked after but in the long run they provide the required labour to fuel the growth. Most of these western countries have an aging population and small families. Europe is running short of labour. The USA and UK which have over the years welcomed migrants have been able to keep a steady supply of labour. German is one county that feels the pinch in its growth plans. It needs the people. Unfortunately they did not know how many to expect and it kind of went out of hand. None the less with German organization this problem will be fixed. It is said that the German working population will shrink by 20million by the year 2030 as the number of deaths outstrip births. The economy will therefore not be able to grow. The most European countries need people to fill this gap.

This had its dark side. The Arabs moving into Europe are Muslims and there is a mixed feeling about Muslims in Europe. Most of the Muslims and nationalities from Asia's do not assimilate into the cultures they go into. The struggle between the Arabs and Israel's has been turned into a religious war successfully. It no longer Israel and the Arabs it is Israel, the west and Muslims. This has now created the good muslim and the bad muslim. The good one is that one collaborating with e west the bad whoever is fighting the west. It has also created successfully the word Islamist and accepted by many Muslims who now use it as it is correct. For the some of us who cooperate with the west we are moderates! Those who don't are Islamists. Why are such two countries unequal creating an economic migrant crisis? The US is aware, it requires fresh labour and they have an organized system if bringing in migrants every year. Recently, during the Pope’s visit to the US the girl who broke into security to deliver a letter to the Pope was a demonstration of the challenges of immigration in the United States. But when you have dead bodies of kids floating on the sea and others electrocuted as a result of these policies, you ask what the global leadership is up to.

In North America, the situation has been very different. Mexicans from the relatively poor Mexico are trying to get into the United States. The US has put barbed wire along the border that separates it from Mexico but Mexicans still scale these fences.  The world has never been fair especially to poor people. But poverty amidst this plenty is a shame and a failure of world leadership, the mass movement of refugees is a failure of world leadership. Unless if the issue is intentional it is not possible that the west with all it might and wealth would fail to find a solution not only to the economic migrant t but to the refugee crisis