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Originally Posted by TarJak
Or Australia. Migration was the key to industrial growth after WW2. I can't agree with the title however it may be playing out in Germany or Schweiz.
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There are migrants and there are migrants. Some go to build themselves - or for their children at least - a new future: that was key drive behind the European mass migration to America.
Others go with not intending to change, instead only to suck the money blood of the new haven they are in, and expecting the natives to adapt to them. Which makes the immigrant a colonist then.
Australia I know not much about, cannot comment.
The title I have chosen from this paragraph in the text I linked:
"Just as water flows downhill and hot air rises, migration—which is always poverty migration—goes from poverty to wealth. There’s no such thing as “wealthy migration,” unless we’re talking about Gerard Depardieu."