In
the last few days, the number of illegal emigrants that have tried to cross the
Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy and the EU has increased dramatically. This
flow shows that spring has arrived and the waters are much calmer. It also
shows that the trend to migrate to Europe through North Africa, particularly
through Libya, has not gone down, notwithstanding the lack of suitable jobs in
our part of the world. But for a young man from Niger or Senegal, from Pakistan
or Bangladesh, the dream is clear: to come and work in Europe is the ambition.
Recently
I was trying to discourage someone from getting into this kind of adventure.
Based in Dakar, a city that has gone poorer and overcrowded during the last
fifteen years or so, the young fellow couldn´t believe me when I told him that
there is no job for a bricklayer in today´s Europe. For him and his friends the
truth is very simple: where they live today there is no future. And if you are
a person full of energy you just keep moving.
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