Will Immigrants always be welcome in the future?

Damien GIRARD

As far as I’m concerned I hope that immigrants will always be welcome in the future because a melting pot always brings great things in a country. But, today some people are worried because they find immigrants very different; the strangers have maybe a different skin colour, maybe another religion, another language or again something else … So people are often scared of what they don’t know, that’s why there are problems of discrimination. Besides, these people think immigrants increase unemployment in their country. To fight this problem, we must learn to be tolerant.

Moreover, many governments try to prevent immigrants from coming into their country because their economic situation is bad.

To finish with this question I hope immigrants will always be welcome but in my opinion it depends principally on the country’s economic situation and on how open-minded citizens are. There is a link between these two elements.


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Damien Ancranaz

In the future the immigration situation won’t continue like today. I think governments (of France, England …) will be stricter about this problem.
In my opinion we should help African and Asian countries so that people stay in their homeland, with their family, their language, their culture. Immigration is good for diversity but too much immigration destroys a nation (like today with Gaza, Israel, India,). So we must help these countries (and all other countries) to encourage their citizens to stay and improve their living conditions; because too much immigration is bad for us (unemployment is an important problem today), bad for their country (governments could lose future workers) and bad for them (in general these workers are poorly paid). Poor people shouldn’t leave their homeland for another country like France or England because I think they can’t be happier in our country than in theirs (like the immigrants in the film It’s a Free World). But all immigration is not bad; political reasons are an important factor of immigration. Some people will always want to improve their civic rights and escape from a country where these basic human rights are not respected.

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Alice Berthier

I think that in the future immigration will be stopped or limited because it’s very difficult for the illegal immigrants to find a job, find accommodation and there is much discrimination against people who live in their new country. Moreover, some countries like England don’t want immigrants to come into their country because they think that immigrants want to steal their jobs ! So, immigrants work in factories or they do poorly paid jobs that the people of the country don’t want to do. To conclude, I think that countries should make efforts to improve the life of immigrants who have settled in their new country.

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Elise Charpin

In my opinion, immigrants will not be welcome in the future because they will contribute to an increase in the unemployment rate. In many cases they don't speak the same language, don't have the right skills and there aren't enough jobs for all of them. Some immigrants show ostensible signs of belonging to a particular religion. So, these immigrants don't want to integrate into society. I think that in the future, the government will take decisions which will be strict and will stop immigrants. At the same time many immigrants suffer from racism and discrimination because of their skin colour.


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Fanny Brugnon

I am in two minds about immigrants: on the one hand, it's a good thing that immigrants should come into our country. They bring about a mixing of cultures and an interesting labour force. On the other hand European countries can no longer provide employment for so many people.
So immigration might increase the number of jobless people. However, it's to be hoped immigrants will manage in the host countries. It would be better if affluent countries helped third world countries. For example, by encouraging fair trade and by making it easier for foreign students to study in France.


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Juliette Gauthier

Immigrants aren't welcome in other countries because most people don't like them. People think immigrants steal work from inhabitants because they accept jobs for less money than, in our case, French people. I think it's ridiculous to talk about ‘immigrants’. We live in the same world so for me foreigners don’t exist! It’s true immigrants aren't welcome in many countries. In the future I think Immigrants will settle in a lot of different countries which will continue to be magnets for them. They think they will find a better job, earn more money and enjoy better living conditions than in their homeland. However when they find a job, they’ll be exploited. It's awful! In the future immigrants will forget their customs and traditions and they'll hide in poor sheds and won’t receive welfare payments...it’s too bad for them! Furthermore it's difficult for them to integrate. They have to learn the language of the country where they live. I dream of a world without borders. I look forward to immigrants living in a flat and not in a shed; I hope they'll be able to find a job where they won’t be exploited. I know it's not possible but there are a lot of charitable organizations which help and encourage them to continue.

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Marion Caillet

Today all countries are very concerned by the problem of immigration. .
Becoming the citizen of a country is very difficult and there are more and more illegal immigrants. They are seeking peace, security and a better life than they enjoyed in their country of origin. In many cases they had to flee war, danger and persecution. Deciding to leave their country was a very difficult choice for them. Once they arrive in their destined country, having been in close contact with death, they then find themselves in danger of being arrested by the police and being sent back to their home country.
Even when they have the right papers, people react very spitefully towards them, and immigration is often a synonym of fear, of distrust, and of a constant need to be vigilant!
For example, a Frenchman or an Englishman usually prefers renting out a flat to another French or English person instead of an immigrant...
The distrust of foreigners has been present for ages and today of course is no exception. Conversely, immigrants with a lot of studies are more well-liked, better welcomed because they will bring a lot to the economy. This is selective immigration.
But times are changing especially with the election of Barack Obama in the US...!


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Linlay Fragnol

We see now many immigrants are discriminated against and that they are not accepted in many countries. And in some extreme cases people think that immigrants are criminals. Just because this is true for a very small minority, these people make a generality. However things might change. In France, there are many advertising campaigns and charitable organizations like Secours Catholique which try to help immigrants, especially if they are asylum seekers. Many high schools like Le Lycée du Granier work on the theme of immigration in general. They try to change things and make people less prejudiced. So I am not as pessimistic as all that! I think in the future that if these efforts continue in many countries, immigrants will be more welcome than today!


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Franck Didierjean

It’s difficult to answer this question but in my opinion it’s important for immigrants to be welcome in the future because after all we are all equal! We have to understand that some people couldn’t stay in their countries because they disagreed with the political situation or because they wanted to find a job or improve their education or their skills. Of course I am disgusted by racism. People have to accept the reality that today there are people with different origins and backgrounds who live and work in France.


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Aurélie Gruaz

It is forbidden for employers to refuse to hire a person because of his nationality.
Even if discrimination is prohibited by law of course it persists. People often discriminate against immigrants, but obviously less than in the past. Let us not forget that countries in The European Union have closed their borders to most immigrants. That’s why there are so many illegal immigrants.
Although governments try to stop immigration for economic reasons, countries accept political refugees who were in danger in their homeland.
I think in the future attitudes will continue to evolve and immigrants may become totally integrated.

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Thomas Ferrier

Today, many governments try to prevent immigrants from coming into their country. They know that immigrants often don’t speak the same language, don’t have the right skills. They explain that unemployment is increasing, but most of the time immigrants do jobs that French people are reluctant to do.
When immigrants arrive in a new country, they face a lot of problems, they have to look for a job and find a place to live. It’s a great pity, because instead of stopping the real criminals, governments try to have illegal immigrants arrested. In these conditions, it’s difficult for them to find work and accommodation and hide from the police. They are often discriminated against and some people prefer giving a job of a flat to French person. In a lot of countries organizations try to help immigrants like Angie and Rose’s company, and I think that with this kind of person things could change and mentalities could change for the better. So immigrants can keep hope for the future!

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My personal feelings- Karin

“ It’s a free world “ is a very shocking and impressing movie, because of its plot and because of the way life facts are beeing presented.
The film focuses on Angie, a working class woman who, after being fired by the agency that she works for, decides to set up an agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of recent Polish immigrants, Angie is able to build a successful business extremely quickly.
Despite Rose's misgivings, Angie becomes increasingly eager to build the business, regardless of the potential legal risks of obtaining forged British passports for illegal immigrants, and working without a license for the first few months of the business.
First, I liked this movie very much because of the way it was made. It was very captivating, although the lines were very difficult to follow. The structure of the movie was very well adjusted so that you couldn’t stop watching, in spite the fact that you couldn’t always understand all the conversations.
Secondly, the plot was very realistic which added an extreme flavour to the whole movie. People blinded by money, like Angie, are to be seen every day in every place of the Earth. But, some of the know that there is a limit they mustn’t pass or their life will be a living hell, like Angie’s became after not paying the illegal workers.
Thirdly, I noticed that the movie gave a life lesson to us, the viewers. I interpreted it like this: money isn’t the most important thing in life, you shouldn’t destroy your life with illegal business, in case you already entered that circle you’d better stop, because these business might cause harm to you or your family.
So this movie impressed me, although it was a very sad one, because no one likes to see real dramatic life facts presented in movies, through its plot, presentation and cast. I think it really deserves all the prizes it has got.

It's a Free World

At the begining of the film, Angie, a thirty year old woman, is working for a recruitment agency. She is fired because she refuses her boss’s sexual advances. So, she decides to create her own temporary work agency. However with her friend Rose, she is so desperate to make as much money as possible and to pay back the money she owes, she decides to break the law, not to pay taxes and not to have a licence. She meets professionals who offer casual work to her employees paid on an hourly basis. When her business starts, she refuses to employ workers who don’t have English papers. Later she wants to help an Iranian family who are political refugees in the UK. After a conversation with a business director, she realizes that hiring political refugees who don’t have papers could make her earn a lot of money and very quickly. So she becomes greedier and greedier throughout the film : for example she decides to rent rooms to her workers with the idea of putting as many people as she can in a room ; another example is she calls the immigration authorities to have families thrown off a caravan site so that she can have a place to accommodate her workers. Her greed creates problems for her. One of the professionals for whom she found temporary workers can’t pay her, meaning Angie’s unable to pay her employees. Some of them want to gain revenge hurting her or burgling her flat when she is present. At the end of the film, she has her own office and she goes back to Eastern Europe, this time to The Ukraine, with the aim of recruiting more workers.

After the film, there was a debate with two women who work for the association Amnesty International. This association helps political refugees who arrive in France without papers. The two women explained to us the situation these refugees have to face. For example, they are in a country where they don’t speak the language and they have no right to have papers. They are afraid of being picked up by the police and sent back to their homeland. The two women told us that in many cases, they will be persecuted or killed if they go back there. In African cultures, coming back home is a failure and it means shame. So, many refugees who have a very bad situation in Europe can’t go back to their country. One of the Romanian students wondered why these people continue to come to Europe where they live in misery, can’t find a job and don’t have a life really better than in their countries. The two volontary workers answered that they have the hope to manage to live with dignity in those countries that claim to protect human rights.

I was very surprised by the film because I saw the trailer a few months ago and I minsunderstood it. So, during all the begining of the film, I thougt that Angie wanted to help the refugees giving them a chance to work. But I was disappointed seing that Angie’s character is greedy and ready to do the worst in order to earn money and offer a good life to her son. I wondered what I would do if I was her. And I’m quite sure that I would not have done horrible things like helping people, then denouncing them to the immigration authorities (like she did with Mahmoud’s family). I can’t bear the contempt she has for human values. I think the film denounces the loss of these values and I agree with Ken Loach on this point. However I confess I didn’t like the film beacause I found it very pessimistic for the refugees, like for Angie. She hasn’t any moral values. She’s very determined and makes a lot of effort to earn money, after having been fired many times, but she can’t manage to have what she want. At the end the refugees who were cheated manage to take back all the money she owed them. There is some justice in this but on the other hand this lesson doesn’t teach her anything and she continues to look for workers in Eastern Europe (this time outside the European Union) and to be totally unprincipled.

Dissemination activity

TL+ Baia Mare
December 10th
"Esential educatia"
Moderator:
Camelia Rus
Participants:
Mariana Hudrea
Ioan Tiplea
Adrian Andreica

It's a Free World

The film will pe presented to the first group of students from the 12th A, from Eminescu College , tomorrow morning.
Form teacher: Ana Man