Migration

Somebody, I believe it's Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul, who had described the history of the world to be the history of migration.

Some facts of migration published by the Guardian validates the above viewpoint:

Migrants would constitute the world's fifth most populous country.

■ Number of international migrants has increased from around 150 million people in 2002 to 214 milllion.

■ One out of every 33 persons in the world is a migrant.

■ Countries with a high percentage of migrants include Qatar (87%), United Arab Emirates (70%), Singapore (41%), and Saudi Arabia (28%).

■ Countries with a small percentage of migrants include Turkey (1.9%), Japan (1.7%), India (0.4%), Nigeria (0.22%) and Indonesia (0.1%).

■ In 2012, according to the European commission's Eurostat, there were an estimated 1.7 million immigrants to the EU 27 from outside countries.

Parsing the facts of migration and combining them with the turgid history of immigration in nations like Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia, I figure that what's migration to us, in the liberal hemisphere, is slavery in these nations with a "high percentage" of migrants. For all three nations have a sorry track record of luring outsiders just to exploit their labor, free and/or cheap. Already there is hell raised by the U.N.'s Human Rights Watch Commission about the plight of Nepali workers in Qatar, who've helped built the mammoth soccer stadium without getting a penny.

Again, India, with a small percentage of migrants loses out on the opportunity to become a viscerally diverse nation. India's much touted "diversity" is pretty fake, and is largely mediated through consumption. Instead of savoring Mexican food from the restaurants of real Mexican migrants, Indians are limited to eating exotic Mexican fare cooked by Punjabi chefs in fancy Gurgaon restaurants with silly names like "Salsa Salsaa". 

As for Japan, lack of migrants are causing serious labor shortages.

Turkey is only lately playing host to thousands of Syrian refugees; but how are they treating their unfortunate neighbors, displaced by a hideous civil war? Older Turkish males are marrying young Syrian girls of ages ranging from 13 to 20 as their third and fourth wives, literally abducting them into their insidious harems.

Indonesia could do with some infusion of non-Indonesian blood; they missed out on raising a generation of little Obamas because Balinese boys and girls taunted boy Obama as a "blackie" when he went to school in Bali.

Nobody would think twice of migrating to Nigeria barring the Chinese, who are said to be engaged in the nefarious business of land grabbing in the continent of Africa.

I am all for migration; I cannot imagine the dynamism of human history without it. Homogeneity is anti-evolutionary.