The Taiwan model: a successful case in the management of two grueling emergencies, Covid and immigration
Irregular migrants and Covid-19 , two exhausting emergencies. In 2020, landings tripled compared to 2019: from 11,471 they went to 34,133. Almost all the newcomers do not know our language, they left without a job prospect, without a project other than to get by somehow better, and more easily, than at home. Many, like those who preceded them in the last five years, will end up unemployed, illegal workers, enlisted by Nigerian mafias and other criminal organizations. First, however, those, and they are the majority, who declared themselves refugees on arrival will benefit for a long time from the welfare system created to provide for asylum seekers and holders of international protection or humanitarian residence permits.
In addition to the problems of security and public order, and related costs, which the presence of hundreds of thousands of people with little or no integration creates, the emigrant emergency entails enormous economic burdens. The Interior Ministry's 2020 budget foresaw € 1.93 billion for “immigration, reception and guarantee of rights”, but adding other items, such as rescue at sea, the total is well over two billion. In the years of greatest influx it reached 4.4 / 4.6 and up to 5 billion.
They tried to make us believe that irregular migrants are instead a "resource", even providential. Nobody believes it anymore. Rather, many are convinced that there is no remedy, that irregular migrants cannot be stopped, and indeed more and more will arrive. Thanks also to partial and limited information that reduces our field of vision, we do not realize that elsewhere in the world there are governments that fight illegal emigration and regulate the influx of migrants with good results, according to their own demand for labor. ; that there are at least 164 million emigrants, mostly with documents in order: they do not pretend to be refugees fleeing wars and extreme violence in order not to be rejected, they work profitably for themselves, for the country to which they moved and, if they earn enough to send money home, including for what they come from and for family members who have stayed at home. In 2018, remittances from emigrants abroad amounted to 689 billion dollars.
As for Covid-19 , we have been living for almost a year in a nightmare made up of incomprehensible prohibitions, violated freedoms, alarming news, apocalyptic forecasts of new waves and future impending epidemics, impoverished, in many cases on the verge of survival. Our field of vision has been reduced in the proper sense: for weeks confined to the house, forced not to go beyond the margins of the neighborhood, the municipality of residence, the region, after trips abroad, holidays in other continents. Exhausted, without seeing a way out except in the vaccine and perhaps not even in that, resigned to accepting that our life has changed irremediably, many end up believing that really, as our rulers claim, that of Italy is the model management of Covid that the whole world envies us.
Instead, it is almost hard to believe (many Italians refuse to do so), many countries in 2020 managed to successfully govern and manage both migratory flows and Covid-19 . The case of Taiwan is exemplary and, compared with the Italian one, mortifying. It must be said that in Italy the population density is 206 inhabitants per sq km and in Taiwan 673; furthermore, in Italy, 60.3 million inhabitants, 69.5 per cent of the population, live in urban centers, and in Taiwan, 23.6 million, the rate is 79.0 per cent.
Italy is one of the countries most affected by the Covid-19 emergency in terms of mortality: 1,354 deaths per million inhabitants, only Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina and Slovenia surpass us. It is also so for the bad economic repercussions: Italian GDP fell by 17.3 percent in the second quarter of 2020, by 9.9 percent on an annual basis and it is estimated that it could grow by 4.1 percent in 2021, but everything points to the fear that this will not be the case since other months of red, orange and yellow areas are ahead and there is no government recovery plan.
Taiwan is not part of the WHO, because China vetoes it and therefore has not received indications, protocols, aid of any kind. However, it is among the states that have so far fought Covid-19 best : the data collected on January 17 indicate 855 cases, seven deaths and a mortality rate of 0.3 percent. On the economic front, Taiwan's GDP lost 0.6 percent in the second quarter of 2020, but ended the year with a 2.3 percent growth and is expected to rise 3.2 percent by 2021. one hundred. Among other things, the numerous Taiwanese companies in China contributed to this result, which in 2020 moved to their homeland, with investments of 32 billion euros which alone created 100,000 new jobs.
The dynamic economy and strong demand for labor in 2020 attracted nearly 800,000 regular emigrants, with an influx of talent, especially in the technological field, the flagship of the local industry. Among the new arrivals there are 820 businessmen and at least 124 journalists who preferred to settle in Taiwan to follow the news from China without running the risk of problems with the Chinese authorities. The Taiwanese Ministry of Trade and Labor points out with satisfaction that many immigrants are family groups attracted by the prospect of finding on the island not only excellent job opportunities, but also an efficient health system and a well-organized school system that gives children the possibility of attending school safely.
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