"They take our jobs..."
A common refrain, from Beirut to Berlin. But do they? Who is taking the jobs? And what jobs are they actually taking? It is a key part of a divisive narrative that is used to make us think we are being made poorer, less safe, by incomers. Migrants do the jobs that no-one wants to do. Or companies pay them less as they have no recourse to bargaining or fair employment practices. The enemy is not those with less than us, it is those with more who seek to keep us all oppressed.
A common refrain, from Beirut to Berlin. But do they? Who is taking the jobs? And what jobs are they actually taking? It is a key part of a divisive narrative that is used to make us think we are being made poorer, less safe, by incomers. Migrants do the jobs that no-one wants to do. Or companies pay them less as they have no recourse to bargaining or fair employment practices. The enemy is not those with less than us, it is those with more who seek to keep us all oppressed.
