La Migración es la Solución | Gonzalo Fanjul | TEDxAlcoi

me

good morning called me gonzalo fanjul and

I am an immigrant and some of you by

there will say impostor jumps at the sight that

it happens here and here, but I’m not

asturias and from asturias took me to

madrid and madrid I went to live at

Peru and Peru went back to Spain and

then I went to live in the states

United and return to Spain

and frankly I do not know where I’ll be the

next week this is me I’m not no

I am is I’m not what I feel a

wall or but I went back to Spain that is

that I was moving during all this

time and I do not know if this fits very well

with the idea of what you have of

what should be an immigrant

maybe if I told them they would have

infected something either an alcohol test

with all of you

this maybe if this does not walk this

sir is grabbing the wallet

my message today for all of you is that

we are all immigrants because all

We come from somewhere and that

we have crossed a border is a mere

casualty and denigrating migrant me

You would like to make a confession today

I want to see a world without borders

I want to see a world in which everyone

that you want or need have the

ability to leave your country of origin

in search of security or prosperity and

to achieve that we need a system

migratory completely different from

that we have now much more open and

much more flexible

I want we need a system with

many more immigrants

I’ve been thinking about it for many years

this matter and the truth is that I have

talked to experts from everywhere

I have spoken with him and gone written

studied and giving the tabarra friends

giving the tabarra neighbors and in all this

time I have learned three things by

on top of any other

The first one is that

migrations are good are good for

those who travel are good for their

countries of origin

but the migrations are very good

also for the countries that are

destines immigrants

the second lesson is that the

migrations are natural have occurred to

throughout the whole story

the migrations adapt with absolute

naturalness to the opportunities of

market even so that people do not

come when those opportunities do not

exist

What has happened in Spain?

during the last years

good and natural this starts at

look like one of those places to

make belly true good and

natural but they are good and

natural and some of you will tell me

that I do not think they’re that good and

I think they are so natural and it’s possible

that they are right because it is really

irrelevant what you think what

think me the most important thing is the

third thing that you learned during

this time and that is that migrations are

unavoidable are inevitable because

respond to drives that escape through

complete to the control of governments

as for example the conflicts the

income inequality the transition

demographic

there are more and more young here

we are getting older in meters

seasonal but that’s another story

and if migrations are unavoidable the

fundamental question is we can aspire

to stop the migratory flows and the

answer is that no

the answer is that we can not stop

we can increase the flows we can

lengthen those we can encanallar the as

We are making our southern border

but if those drives operate with the

enough intensity

this is not for anyone what should be

our aspiration therefore our

aspiration should be to govern the

migrations for the benefit of all

but beyond prolegomena this is

the key moment of each the moment

in which the solutions and

the organizers would have spent

four pesetas in a small orchestra

symphonic as I had asked them

this is the moment when

pieces the timbales to announce that

we need a computation system

completely renovated immigration is

most needed by the system

migratory upturned and I propose

to start a change of mentality in

an issue that seems very simple but

which is actually a very crazy idea that

foreigners are treated as beings

human beings and not as holders of a

passport

if we are able to accept that point of

heading then we can deploy all

political institutional creativity

legal that has allowed us to make

face other global challenges

and in that sense I would like

raise today three ideas first idea

we need a migration system a lot

more open more liberal

– Micro managed hyper intervention by

the states get to work at our

countries

the countries of the european union states

united australia any rich country will

has turned into a true race

of obstacles and a race of

obstacles that often do not end well

the immigrants and brought them and the

employers have to put on

according to 14 thousand kilometers of

distance to act some mechanism

mysterious ultramarine and after

show that there is nobody else in all the

European Union that is capable of meeting

that work once you have achieved

agree the worker has

to go with your job offer to spend

months or weeks even years in the

consulates trying to get a

permission to come and when the

workers are subject to a

company to a province determined to

a professional qualification to a

time a duration of your contract

if any of those conditions change

or if the worker is fired

the work permit is over

frankly avoided orders from

far less restrictive

that all this

the point is that this is not necessary

it is not necessary that we impose

such strict conditions to those who

come what I propose is simple and to

the best thing will seem very crazy because

we do not apply to the economy of the

migrations the same lessons that

we have learned in any other sector

of the economy because not only because

we do not allow the operators to

regulate naturally

employers and workers and

we reserve for the state

a function that is fundamental and is that

all this process occurs within

the law and guaranteed by rights

this is exactly what has happened

new in a country like New Zealand

zealand is a country that has many

less prejudice than we have

us because it is a country formed by

immigrants and during the past years

new zealand has opted for the

temporary immigration as a mechanism

not only to facilitate their own

labor needs but for

guarantee opportunities to others that

they want to go to new zealand

this graphic shows how they have

evolved migration programs

temporary in new zealand between the year

2011 and 2016 where they grew

practically 40 percent almost 193

thousand people in 2016 had the

opportunity to temporarily emigrate to

new zealand for a diversity of

student programs that could

work part of your time to temporary

agrarian people who occupied capabilities

specific needs that the economy needed

aa people who came for regrouping

family

people came to their work they

they benefited they benefited their

countries of origin benefited and

what way the New Zealand economy and

there was a period of migration

seasonal as the one of benidorm in case

there was something fundamental in this model

and that is that people fulfilled their part of the

contract and returned after

finish it because the fundamental thing about this

proposal is that it would allow us to reduce

considerably the flows of

irregular immigration because look

the message that we transfer to the

immigrants who are waiting for the

opportunity to jump

you do not have to go up in a boat

the system is going to give you a chance

if you have the patience to wait for it and

frankly another thing, but if something

have proven the immigrants is

patience opportunities few but

patience a while

I guess this is what it calls the

moral of alcoyano is not an idea I

I want a migration system with

rights for all for those who

moves but also for those who were

here if fundamental rights

are associated with the condition of a

citizen and not the one who has a passport

then everyone who lives our city

is the one that lives our country should have

guaranteed rights like

protection access to health the

act

education that goes for the

immigrants who have come to work

Spain but also for the 700 thousand

young Spaniards who have gone out to

work to other countries during the

years of the crisis

this has happened is possible is not a

madness in our country in Spain has been

guaranteed for a long time the

access to healthcare for immigrants in

irregular situation

precisely under the condition of

city of citizens and the system does not

it has come down but it is clear that

not everyone wins with this situation

it is evident that there are people who compete

directly by the jobs or by the

called for the social benefits that

they have to share with immigrants

and those people need compensation

specific not only is it just because

that would allow us to redistribute the

benefits of the immigration system for

the whole society but that is also what

smarter because it’s going to

allow to reduce social conflict

associated with the arrival of many

immigrants to our country

if any of you back to me

will ask where baroque where

let’s take out that money if not what

we have and please the very crazy idea

because we use part of the exorbitant

budget that we spend every year

in preventing it from reaching the migrants

the overseas development institute one of

the research centers more

prestigious london

calculated that the European Union has

spent between 2014 and 2016 17 thousand

million euros only in preventing the

arrival of new refugees 17,000

millions of euros

imagine you are what we can do

with that amount for example for

build day care centers or to build

health centers

today is here but often ambulatory

cma chop that is built in the

neighborhood nor mariano that last month

admitted 50,000 immigrants there is girl

what luck and françois does not admit 51 looks

and a third idea kit I want a

system that helps reduce obscenities

levels of poverty and inequality that

we suffer in the world wants a system

migratory that works against the

poverty and this is a message

directly addressed to

development organizations and

agencies that do cooperation

international increase the help for

that people do not come

it did not work, in fact it serves just

to the contrary

this is a graphic that is not me

taking sun in force but that is a

graphic that explains how I know how to

migrations govern who emigrated and

because if they realize the migrations

they are lower at the ends not

those who are poorer and

those who are richer do not migrate to the

poor because they do not have the capabilities

educational and financial capabilities

to make the jump but neither look at

the richest because they do not have

incentives are fine where are they

those who emigrate are the middle classes

that means that everything we do

to help Africans improve

your conditions what you are going to do is

push them to the exit point

we have to keep the help at

development but not for this and I would

I propose another way to link the

migratory policies to policies

of cooperation you remember the

famous 0 7% of GDP destined for aid

I propose another 0 7% I propose

Consider the possibility of

increase a little

only 0.7 percent the number

of people who could emigrate

legally to our countries by

example in help programs of

temporary migration and some of you

they will tell me but how many people

in fact the calculation if we consider

all the immigrants that are in the

world a 0 7 would be 1.8 million

people

they will tell me but by God 1,8 impossible not

we can not come if we consider

that 1.8 million people would arrive

for example the European Union to a

500 million people market

maybe they do not seem so many and without

However, they can have an effect

absolutely formidable about the

development of their countries of origin

that’s something we had opportunity to

check with a little experiment

who made michael clemens of the center

for global development michael clemens

proposed to the US government a

very crazy idea after the earthquake that

it took place in haiti

in 2010 what he told them is no

we should only allocate help from

emergency to the country but also

we can help them by allowing a

tiny part of Haitians can

emigrate to the United States so

temporary to work in sectors

where we need them and where they can

generate income for their families from

origin

and what happened is this each of

the Haitians who participated in the

program achieved in just 12 months

multiply all your income by two

annual

85% of what was destined generated

to their families in origin some of the

poorest and most punished households

for the earthquake in haiti

but the most fascinating is the third

part the most fascinating thing is that not only

generated every 13 thousand dollars per

head for the development of haiti is

that they stopped benefits for the

North American economy 4 thousand dollars

for you what is called a bargain and each

one of those Haitians fulfilled the part

of his contract and returned after

have it after having fulfilled it

something that they probably could not do

if the wall is finally built

they want to build

we are finishing I have tried to talk

of that with a little sense of humor

of a subject that really very difficult

but if they realize the policies

migration is a subject that often does not

have no fucking grace this system

migrant condemns exclusion to

extreme vulnerability to suffering the

anguish millions of people

we allow in our own cities

and sometimes in our own homes

a system that in fact supposes a

apartheid system we are pulling by

the extraordinary sinks

economic and social benefits that

would imply a more migratory system

fair and smarter

none of this is necessary we change this

I suggest you think about

big

I propose that we make the lottery

where you are born is not

become a determinant of your

rights for the rest of life

let’s do the right to free mobility

a right that is the great right

of the 21st century and it is possible that neither you

nor do we see that right not even the

younger because the big

Social achievements are the result

of the fight of entire generations

until societies consider

inevitable what seemed to us before

simply impossible but we can

do it I encourage you to join me

reminds me of the words of that great

philanthropist who one day told us

we are going to make the world

waits to gay we love you toral

tell us you are our lighthouse shots towards

where to go

that we will go to each other

Thank you very much

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