It’s like illegal immigrants (Mexicans in my area) are the boogeyman that everybody around me agrees to hate. What, materially speaking, is causing this?
It’s like illegal immigrants (Mexicans in my area) are the boogeyman that everybody around me agrees to hate. What, materially speaking, is causing this?
Don’t worry, it’s racism.
However, I have heard that social media has basically enabled an entire cottage industry of international knowledge-sharing and logistics to allow people to migrate to the country of their choice. For example a tiktok video might show people from country A that they can get a visa to country B, and then they cross into country C to get to their destination D. And then there are apparently instructions on what methods of not getting deported have the highest success rates. As a result, you can see the “other countries” origin grow a lot since 2020 in graphs like on this site. Overall, it’s interesting to think how these trends might erode the imperial labor hierarchy by people in the periphery simply refusing to stay there.
Also, someone please correct me if they think any of this is wrong because I only have anecdotal evidence for this phenomenon