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-Editorial-
Migrations and Social Outbreak
“In my opinion, the original cause, the initial deposit of social anger of the power that we could see last October 18th and the following days, is the group of young people from the last quintile, which was abandoned by the society to a competition with the mass of immigrants who arrived in the country, taking away their hope of ascending. Chile should have developed a serious immigration policy, and not the simple indiscriminate opening of which both,the left and the right, are equally guilty. ”
Santiago Montt, President of Montt Group
see it coming; they did not understand that this group exhibited signi cant pain, positive growth pain and social arrival, but strong pain at last, that could be easy grass for politicians and adventurers.
Also, there is another phenomenon, poorly studied, but which in Chile has had great relevance and impact on the current situation in the country: it is about the immigration without control or any planning experienced in the last 10 or 15 years, of large numbers of Colombian, Venezuelan, and Haitian population. In fact, in a country like Chile, with only 17 million inhabitants, in the last 10 or 15 years, about one million immigrants entered, but the serious thing and what should be emphasized is that this immigration entered to compete in the working world only with the last quintile of Chilean society, this is with the poorest 20 percent of Chile represented by around 3,4 million people, which half is in working age. Lower-income Chileans saw nearly one million people compete with them, causing this locals extraordinary damage, losing their jobs throughout the country; producing a considerable decrease in wages in the eld in which they compete; generating more insecurity in their neighbourhoods, and making everyday life more di icult for them, because of the greater pressure that is generated in the face of available social services, when these immigrants have access to the same bene ts of the State in their favour, which were previously quite de cient.
The consequences of this irresponsible lack of programming by the State of Chile and the absence of a serious immigration policy are very important, since it meant incorporating large contingents into the country, beyond what it could absorb, seriously damaging the Chileans, destabilizing them and subtracting
We are seeing Latin America experiencing profound changes and growing instability, mainly due to the internal development of its social body, the massive incorporation of people to the middle classes, whom immediately assume the aspirations of a better improvement of their social status. All of these is rapidly transforming, essentially, the society and its structures. It is true that this group in the last two decades has had a magni cent progress, but in their own eyes that is no longer valued, but only the next progress and the next way to improve their current standard of living and consumption is appreciated. We are seeing this situation directly in Chile, but also in other latitudes of the region.
On the other hand, this new social mass comes with a less structured, much more open cultural world, that only believes in what it sees and touches now, and what we have called the great pillars of our society, leave them quite indi erent. This social mass absorbs very quickly ideas force of the politicians on duty as soon as they are pro table to their social ascent, which undoubtedly has been long delayed. Likewise, an objective problem that arises is that when incorporated into consumption and its practices, the group has fallen due to marketing tactics, including the abuse of credit cards and the like, and is seriously indebted, which makes its domestic life restricted or even su ocating, having to devote an important part of their remuneration to the service of such consumer debts, sometimes for the disproportionate acquisition of modern cell phones, large TV screens and similar items. Our societies and its world of values, always focused more on the past than on the present, have not been prepared to receive this social tsunami; they didn’t
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