year and inevitably changed in the middle of the gargantuan excesses, reappear good intentions "to resume a lazy indoor theme blog? And one wonders, so soon, if we have good intentions in the field of migration. If you have ideas to share and implement. Everyone who tries to participate, even modestly, in the ongoing process by which society is transformed to itself, has to stop occasionally to find opportunities for analysis and reflection if you want your speech to be truly effective. Otherwise, the daily devours us and we are conducting a series of mechanical activities whose meaning is not discovered or dodging the blows of daily life without really knowing where they come from. We just brew a new reform of the Aliens Act, and the truth, I believe that despite the goals, we have a good defense, as far as we can. Not only have criticized certain aspects of the reform, which itself is already very good. We have also raised new issues, problems arising from specific applications that we had been finding, and we wanted it to be resolved along the lines of the regulatory changes. However, all these interesting ideas have been drawn on a general model of migration management that we never have time to question or challenge seriously.
And what is that model? In my opinion, at this point in the film is already clear that the model is that there is no legal model. During these years that a significant number of foreigners has been settling in Spain, the immigration law and regulatory policy development have changed continuously and constantly, some of its provisions were declared unconstitutional or illegal administrative practices has been erratic, inconsistent, highly variable and dependent on the conjuncture of time and place. The feeling that all this gives us is chaos and perpetual motion. When I started studying these issues, I attributed this lack to the speed with which our country issuer had become migrants in receiving immigrants. Unlike other developed countries, which have a more clear and robust, Spain "did not know yet what I wanted." In full year 2010, this excuse does not seem credible. Now I think we can discern the general pattern that has remained stable at the bottom of the apparent chaotic motion ( "If we want everything to stay as it is, it is necessary that everything changes" ).
From a structural perspective, migration to Spain is not a phenomenon caused by individual decisions according to the classical liberal framework, but a global process of mobilization work force (I can not stop now to argue this point.) The general scheme by which this mobilization occurs in the labor force may now be perceived with some clarity and has nothing to do with the idealized approach to poetically express our laws and public speeches. I can not dwell on this issue today, but as a synthesis could say that the real model is based on a derogation from the rules and inserted in this system, the standards are no longer "innocent" and eventually become functional for their own failure. In this context, the authorities do not have hardly any control over what happens in practice and subsequent reforms of immigration law remain on three basic objectives: a) seek to influence indirectly in a process that can not handle (well, trying to influence the labor market through the reunification), b) throw symbolic messages the electorate (always composed of English) and c) try to put patches to address the devastating social consequences of the real process. The social and economic failures of this model are very large, so it is worth asking how far we can go changing this way of doing things.
At first glance, it might be argued that the current economic situation is not very appropriate to reflect on possible new methods of recruitment of foreign labor. Nothing is further from the truth. Although it seems that finally we have become fully aware that the English economic growth model is "bread for today, hunger tomorrow, it seems unlikely that this pattern will change substantially in the medium term, more efforts are needed in this area . So when you resubmit the crisis, it is likely that our job market again exert a powerful attraction for foreign labor force. If by then we have not thought about how to harness that power of attraction of a proper and humane manner, we will meet again with the same problem. So the "lean" is a good time to make plans or future strategies Another important issue, no doubt what will be the "hot topic" in the future, is the integration of the workforce in terms drawn segregated (the "management of diversity of origin").
designing these strategies, we should not be afraid to utopias. Shurz As Carl said, " Ideals are like stars . You can not touch them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as a guide and follow them, you reach your destination" . Dreaming is free and the dreams of today are the seeds of the realities of morning. Of course, the utopias never done the exact manner in which they had imagined, but rather drive the transformation of society to a point that will need raising new questions and new projects. In any case, it is good to open our mind, our imagination has no limits and not give anything at all for granted or fixed, because the world can change beyond the ear of the time (well, for example, Aristotle thought the subjugation of women and slavery were natural law institutions could and should be changed).
But staying only in utopias is clearly inadequate. When live in the ideas and not in reality, they become "ideology" in the bad sense of the word, that is, imaginary worlds or heavenly realms on which we project our anxieties for the real world follow in the same state tortured us. Those who claim to be faithful to the purity of preconceived ideals end up not doing anything useful for real people is the same purity of the anchorite who rejects the world (today we call "the system") and pretend to live in an imaginary world which is not stained with the mud of the Devil is real life, however, who lives in the world and participates in it, engaged in processing, inevitably and sprinkle stain with their "imperfections." Because reality is not in the ideals that guide us, but the world itself. In the field of migration, as in other fields, there is a structural reality that leads, by itself, some damage to human dignity, in this context, any realistic proposal that is made will be imperfect and may be criticized by the apostles hieratic of utopia. However, if we do not make imperfect and contaminated actions of imperfection, we can never follow the path marked by the star of our ideals.
for influencing the social reality we must be humble enough to admit his complexity. We face a very complex system, in which none of the players have full control over the situation. There are people, groups and networks more powerful and influential than others, of course, but there is no Judeo-Masonic conspiracy to mark accurately the steps of history. And if even the most powerful have full control of the case, what can be said of the weak. Thus, our particular pursuit of the star can be no foolproof five-year plan, doomed to failure. Edgar Morin, philosopher of complexity, distinguishes between plan and strategy . A plan is a future path so fixed, are met or not met, whereas a strategy is a scheme much more flexible, taking into account the movements of other players and is situated in a particular context something like the directions given by the football coach his team. "Human beings protagonist of the story, but it is under conditions chosen by him, but others that were inherited from the past ." We are in a privileged moment to think about new strategies for integrating a process sometimes stark and brutal mobilization of the workforce. Participate
very very modestly in the design of these strategies could be the main New Year's resolution of this blog is not dead, though he likes to stick good naps. Of course, for that you may have to get a bit behind in the analysis of the situation. Maybe I was not going to happen good proposals for the future but I have hope that what I write, or criticism to be made to what I write to inspire others more imaginative.
Of course, so far in the next posts I will introduce myself in a matter that is ancillary to the main problem, although you could serve something. They are proposing a new theoretical approach to contemplate the rights of migrants. I'm working on it lately, but I'll write it here in less technical language. Until then, happy year patient readers who follow this blog after searching through months of inactivity.
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