This is from the Rivers of Blood speech. On whether foreign students could be classed as immigrants, Theresa May is to the right of Enoch Powell.pic.twitter.com/V9ji0iTI5j
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This is from the Rivers of Blood speech. On whether foreign students could be classed as immigrants, Theresa May is to the right of Enoch Powell.pic.twitter.com/V9ji0iTI5j
The EU Blue Card also doesn’t consider its holders to be immigrants. So, in Germany, it does not contain the requirement that one acquire German, nor does it grant any right to classes for cultural assimilation. The central idea being these people would work here, then return.
This of course does not preclude these people changing their status. If one can speak German at B1 level, then after 22 months one can turn an EU Blue Card into an indefinite permission of settlement, which is a permanent residency, and thus now fully an “immigrant”.
But the benefits of not being classified as an immigrant upfront is super useful, as they have skills of interest to Germany’s interests, and thus “short-circuit” around more typical requirements of immigrants, such as German proficiency, and cultural assimilation.
This is a bit of a tangent, but to me "cultural assimilation" has way tog negative baggage in practice (as well as in theory TBH) to actually be a healthy or even attainable goal for immigrants.
Tog =too much
"failure to assimilate" has to be one of the most (crypto) fascist ideas around.
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