http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/blog/2007/09/28/migration-blogger-cathryn-cluver-on-kgo-radio-abc-san-francisco/ The Largest Network of Global Affairs Blogs Online Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:00:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/blog/2007/09/28/migration-blogger-cathryn-cluver-on-kgo-radio-abc-san-francisco/#comment-9 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:52:42 +0000 http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/blog/2007/09/28/migration-blogger-cathryn-cluver-on-kgo-radio-abc-san-francisco/#comment-9 [...] To let EU Commissioner Franco Frattini know what you think of his Blue Card proposals, you can go to his website, where the topic is the ‘thought of the week’ and features a feedback form. I recently weighed in on what the EU Blue Card means in a comparative perspective to the US in an interview with KGO/San Francisco. You can listen to my comments here. [...] […] To let EU Commissioner Franco Frattini know what you think of his Blue Card proposals, you can go to his website, where the topic is the ‘thought of the week’ and features a feedback form. I recently weighed in on what the EU Blue Card means in a comparative perspective to the US in an interview with KGO/San Francisco. You can listen to my comments here. […]

]]> http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/blog/2007/09/28/migration-blogger-cathryn-cluver-on-kgo-radio-abc-san-francisco/#comment-6 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:14:23 +0000 http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/blog/2007/09/28/migration-blogger-cathryn-cluver-on-kgo-radio-abc-san-francisco/#comment-6 This was a fascinating revelation, particularly since my friends in Germany have been talking for years about the deeply held anti immigrant feeling there, particularly in the former Eastern Germany areas. In France, a French friend who is married to an African has told me of her husband being stopped multiple times in his car for no cause other than that he is black. The Paris suburbs are hotbeds of immigrant unhappiness over their treatment in France. If one's name is Mohammed or if one has an address in certain banlieus, it's nearly impossible to get a good job or place to live. Sooooo...just recruiting in Africa and Asia won't solve the skilled labor problems in the EU. Attitude change is needed before immigrants feel welcome in the EU. This was a fascinating revelation, particularly since my friends in Germany have been talking for years about the deeply held anti immigrant feeling there, particularly in the former Eastern Germany areas. In France, a French friend who is married to an African has told me of her husband being stopped multiple times in his car for no cause other than that he is black. The Paris suburbs are hotbeds of immigrant unhappiness over their treatment in France. If one’s name is Mohammed or if one has an address in certain banlieus, it’s nearly impossible to get a good job or place to live. Sooooo…just recruiting in Africa and Asia won’t solve the skilled labor problems in the EU. Attitude change is needed before immigrants feel welcome in the EU.

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