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United Nations Development Change Group

United Nations Development Change Group. SUBJECT: Immigration in the European Union. OVERVIEW. · C ase study: France and Spain background current governmental policy current statistics social problems Recommendations to UN. History of Immigration--France. Post WWII immigration

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United Nations Development Change Group

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  1. United NationsDevelopment Change Group SUBJECT: Immigration in the European Union

  2. OVERVIEW ·Case study: France and Spain • background • current governmental policy • current statistics • social problems • Recommendations to UN

  3. History of Immigration--France • Post WWII immigration • French-Algerian War How am I supposed to feel French, when people always describe me as a Frenchman of Algerian origin?Nadir Dendoune

  4. History of Immigration--Spain • Moorish history in Spain • Franco dictatorship to present

  5. Recent Laws and Developments France: Toughness Spain: Acceptance

  6. Failure of Quotas Madrid bombings and aftermath Zapatero and changes in policy Country wide regularization February 7, 2005 and May 7, 2005 Goal of the program Regularization España

  7. “Out of the Question” La France • May 2005: expulsion of illegals • November riots • Extremism vs. Understanding • Presidential rivals: Villepin vs. Sarkozy

  8. Recent Immigration Statistics

  9. Spain • March 2005, 2,054,453 foreigners resided in Spain with legal documents. • The government estimated that there were more than a million illegal residents prior to the legalization process. • The number of illegal people in Spain may be greater than 1,600,000.

  10. Spain • 2,000 foreigners who are not EU community members enter through the Pyrenees each day • Citizens of Ecuador, Romania, Colombia and Argentina in this order are the principal nationals that are illegally working in Spain. 

  11. Criticism of legalization process • Many Africans have been excluded for lack of legal papers. • Criminal background checks only looked at Spanish infractions and country of origin infractions. • Maintenance of legal status depends on employer obligations to pay social security.

  12. Post-war Immigration Policy France • France was the only country in Europe to encourage permanent immigration • Recruitment of new workers halted with the first oil shock in 1973. • France has no organized interest groups advocating greater immigration.

  13. France • 100,000 new entries per year. • The legal flows have included EU migrants, family members of legal residents, and refugees and asylum-seekers admitted on the basis of constitutional and international law.

  14. Flaws in the system • Repressive measures rendered formerly legal migration flows illegal. • People known as (inexpulsables-irrégularisables) - including rejected asylum-seekers, and foreign parents of French children—cannot be expelled, yet are not eligible for residency permits

  15. Cultural Aspects • French reaction to immigrants • Desire of immigrants to be assimilated into society (Maghrebi Arabs, etc.) • Failures = Violence

  16. CulturalAspects Spanish reaction to immigrants Immigrants Reaction

  17. Voices for Change

  18. Recommendations • Work with IOs • UNFPA, UNECE, IOM to garner accurate statistics of immigration • Council of Europe and European Union to begin to implement Hague Program; a common EU strategy

  19. Recommendations • Implementation of National Social Programs: • Offer community programs for adults and children for cultural enrichment • Skill training • Current statistics for French minorities; reform of laïcité • Create micro-credit programs for minority groups for home ownership programs

  20. Recommendations • Economic Programs • Aid and investment in source countries: two nations working together • Accept need for immigration to maintain economic stability with declining population • Encourage legal immigration, regularize employed illegals shrink informal economy • Reform of the “welfare state”

  21. Summary: European Immigration: A Fact of Life • France and Spain: different ends of the spectrum • History, policy, statistics, culture • Need to implement above referenced recommendations

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