Immigration, Emigration and Remigration

Last year, the term “remigration” has become popular in Europe, especially in “right wing” circles. Native Europeans who are fed up with the disruption and breakdown of their society by unassimilable immigrants from Africa, the Near East and Central Asia are now calling for the deportation of those underexposed knife wielders and Islamists gone berserk. Since such people consistently refuse to adapt to the culture of the country in which they have apparently chosen to live, there is no other solution than to deport them. The concept of remigration has therefore become a standard fixture of the debate on the problem of non-European invaders. Although the word has an inherently neutral significance, it certainly has an undertone of coercion.

It is especially the young leaders of what is supposed to represent the resistance (often dubiously funded) against the suffocating hold of politically correct “left” totalitarianism on the EU, who have made remigration a popular term. These young leaders notably include Martin Sellner from Austria, Dries van Langenhove from Belgium and Eva Vlaardingerbroek from the Netherlands. They have played a major role in putting the problem of Third World invaders and their propensity for economic parasitism, social disruption, cultural distortion and violence on the agenda of public debate.

It is obvious that most violent Non-Europeans now living in Europe have no plans whatsoever to return to their Third World hell holes. Instead, they are doing their best to turn the European cities where they reside into hell holes.

About 70% of the EU population (some 300 million people) are living in cities, and of these more than forty are urban areas with over one million inhabitants. Almost 120 million Europeans are living in such a high-density urban setting. It is especially in those big cities, such as Berlin, Paris, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Milan and others, that most Third World aliens prefer to live. The few among them who really want to work and earn some income on their own, head for agricultural areas. It is here that many Indians (at least half a million) and Pakistanis (about one million) are to be found, especially in Portugal, Italy and Greece. Near Valencia, Spain, many Moroccans also have found employment as agricultural workers as well.

To be sure, labor migration has long been a feature of Europe’s socioeconomic life. Over a century ago, as soon as it was harvest time in France, Belgians used to hop on their bikes and ride to France to work as seasonal laborers. After harvest, they would ride back to their families. No wonder here lie the roots of bicycle races that are still popular in Europe. Before the First World War, German agriculture relied on seasonal labor from the Russian Empire. In 1910 alone, more than 600,000 agricultural workers (from Poland and Lithuania) came to work in the fields of Germany. Around 1900, hundreds of thousands of Italians (the so-called golondrinas, swallows) used to cross the Atlantic each year to go to Argentina for the grain harvest, earning good money. Afterward they would return to Italy to bring in the harvest there as well. During the interwar period, when France experienced acute labor scarcity due to the mass killing of its young men on the First World War battlefields, it relied on immigrant labor from Poland and other countries. Agriculture having become increasingly mechanized and industry relying more and more on robots and intelligent machinery, the demand for seasonal labor has become ever smaller.

When after in the 1960s postwar reconstruction in Europe had been accomplished, and the economy began to grow, the labor shortage could only be met by importing labor from places such as Turkey and Morocco. These countries supplied most of the Gastarbeiter (“guest workers”) in West-Germany and the Netherlands.

The millions of Third World migrants that have been coming to Europe since the 1990s are unskilled and rarely speak the language of the places they go to. Nor do they bring any useful expertise or knowledge of any value to Europe. Often illiterate and bringing nothing that might enrich or benefit Europe, what would their role be apart from mere consumers of welfare and “philanthropy?” Increasingly those Third World good-for-nothings have been coming in the guise of “asylum seekers,” claiming they are being persecuted or threatened in their homeland. They stand in sharp contrast to the 19th-century and early 20th-century European and Latin American intellectuals and political activists who were being persecuted and who needed a safe haven just to survive. Among the contemporary “asylum seekers” from the Third World, there is no Heinrich Heine, no Errico Malatesta, no Karl Marx, no Andrés Bello, indeed not a single one of any authentic intellectual or political significance.

Certain categories of “asylum-seekers” from places where the US and its European NATO vassals have long-term economic and political plans, are being especially pampered in the EU. These people include Afghans, Syrians, Iranians and others, who are expected to transform into a kind of Fifth Column once the decision has been taken by the Americans or their overlords to set off a Color Revolution.

Perforce most Third World fortune seekers can contribute only very little (if anything at all) to the European nation where they appear to settle down. No wonder that many of them end up filling their time with marginal and criminal activities, such as the drug business, racketeering, prostitution, pickpocketing and organized begging. Thus, Moroccans play a prominent role in the highly developed drug traffic scene in the Netherlands and Belgium.

On the other hand, there are exceptions as well. The Chinese (1.5 million), Vietnamese (one million) and a good number of Turks have established themselves in the restaurant and food business and various kinds of trades and services. These people are making a positive contribution to the local European economy.

The same can be said of the immigrants from Latin America. In Spain, there are almost five million people from Spanish America, and in Portugal almost half a million Brazilians. They speak the local language and are usually well integrated, since they share the basic local cultural and moral values and patterns of behavior. Often, it is merely their accent that sets them apart. In a sense these immigrants with a basic cultural affinity are not unlike the 3.5 million Pieds-noirs in France and the two million or so “Indo’s” in the Netherlands. The “black feet” are Frenchmen, Europeans and Jews from Algeria, who settled in France after Algeria became independent in 1962. Indo’s are Dutch from Indonesia, often of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry, who came to the Netherlands after the Dutch recognized Indonesia’s independence in 1949. Both groups have integrated quite successfully in their original homeland. Notable Indo’s include NATO Gensec Mark Rutte, the new Dutch PM Rob Jetten, as well as opposition leaders Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet. Among the Pieds-noirs, French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy (“BHL”) has achieved some notoriety. Other groups that often seem to assimilate smoothly include people from the French Antilles in France, the Dutch Antilles in the Netherlands (200,000) and from the former Dutch colony of Suriname in the Netherlands (almost 400,000).

Among the dozens of millions of immigrants who arrived since the 1970s, the Turks can be considered to be Europeans, if only because part of Turkey lies in Europe and because Turkey sports a highly developed, sophisticated culture. The same can certainly not be said of the more than ten million African blacks currently staying in Europe, their numbers constantly growing as a result of the loads of boat people that keep arriving on Europe’s Mediterranean coast. These black Africans are bringing little of traditional value to Europe, as most have little or no educational background and few marketable skills, the main exceptions being in sports, music and entertainment. Even if they wish to assimilate, they lack the educational framework and role models once available through colonial structures. Nor are the many Muslims that have been coming to Europe at all interested in adapting to European culture. Even most of the more than 2.5 million Syrians, to the extent they are not Christian, have no desire whatsoever to assimilate. The same can be said of the 2.5 million Muslim Algerians mostly living in France.

Europe today is perhaps as ethnically and religiously diverse and variegated as India. Growing numbers of native Europeans are coming to resent all that “diversity” and the policies of “equity and inclusion” pursued by the authorities. As a result each year a million native Europeans are leaving their country and the EU altogether, in order to be elsewhere what all those Third World people are in the EU: immigrants. Increasing numbers of native Europeans are fleeing from corrupt national bureaucracies and legal systems, collapsing systems of education, health care, streets that are unsafe after dark, increasing restrictions on everything imaginable, rules and regulations that are ever crazier and all-encompassing, and ever rising taxes. These European refugees (most still visibly part of the middle classes) go to places like Dubai, Paraguay, Thailand, Bali, Brazil, Costa Rica and Russia, with a few in their optimism settling in still “White” environments in the EU such as Hungary and the Bulgarian Riviera.

Although the number of European emigrants has not reached pre-1914 percentages and figures (when dozens of millions moved to the Americas), or even that of immediate post-World War II emigration, contemporary emigration is quite considerable. It is significant that most contemporary refugees from a collapsing continent are not from the “poor and huddled masses” but often entrepreneurs, intellectuals and in general people with above average income and educational levels.

It is obvious that the dregs of Third World society coming to Europe under false pretenses, egged on and supported by people like George Soros, are pushing out precisely those native Europeans who are sorely needed for building a better future.

Europe, at least that part of Europe known as the EU, is being destroyed by its own hostile elite and it seems their work is progressing nicely. By the looks of it, “remigration” will make no difference and will not prevent the EU from collapsing.