It is a bill that is already making a lot of noise in France and which will have consequences in many foreign countries, the countries of departure of many immigrants wishing to find a better future, often for economic reasons. This is one of the major current issues in the relationship between developed and developing countries: how to remedy labor problems and the aging of their populations without plundering human resources in the country of origin, the perpetual debate on the brain drain?
Several European countries are thus in the process of reforming their legislation on the reception of foreign workers. This is the case of France where a bill presented by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and that of Labor Olivier Dussopt must be examined by parliamentarians. While the unemployment rate is at its lowest, the text promotes pragmatic immigration, so-called “chosen” immigration. One of the most commented on articles concerns jobs in tension in sectors such as catering, construction, personal services or medicine. It provides for a temporary residence permit for undocumented workers, eagerly awaited by companies. It remains to be seen what it will actually change and whether it will allow real progress for immigrants.
OUR GUESTS :
- Manon Domingues dos Santos, professor of economics at Gustave Eiffel University, member of Erudite (research team on the use of individual data in connection with economic theory)
- Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski, lecturer at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom), associate researcher at the Convergences Migration Institute and the Chair of International Migration Economics at the Paris School of Economics
- Doctor Mohamed Bekkat Berkani, President of the National Council of the Order of Algerian Physicians.
OUR REPORTS :
The French immigration bill plans to create a one-year residence permit for people working in shortage occupations. But to have access to it, the candidates will have to be present in France for 3 years, and show that they have worked eight months in a profession in tension. Our correspondent Yoram Milloul met Wafa, an Algerian national living and working in France for 5 years, facing many administrative problems.
TESTIMONY JOBS IN TENSION MARSEILLE
Albania loses almost 20,000 of its inhabitants every year. It is especially the youth who are trying to leave. In addition to persistent problems such as clientelism or corruption, there is today inflation — the highest in 20 years — and the rise in the cost of living. A situation which has significant consequences on the Albanian economy, as was observed Nicholas Monk.
ALBANIA IMMIGRATION REPORT