Gita Tamang is a migrant from Darjeeling, India. She now works as a childminder in Lisbon. She chose Portugal because it’s relatively easy to stay and apply for family reunification.
However, although immigration is recognized as necessary for the economy, some people are concerned about the influx of immigrants to certain European economies via Portugal.
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However, although immigration is recognized as necessary for the economy, some people are concerned about the influx of immigrants to certain European economies via Portugal.
#riseofthefarright
Watch full documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q9nndGpuFo&t=102s
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00:00Where are you from originally?
00:02I'm from India, Darjeeling.
00:05Darjeeling, where the tea comes from?
00:08Yes.
00:09How lovely.
00:10Yes.
00:11Why Portugal, if you could have gone anywhere?
00:14You could have France, Germany, the UK, Spain?
00:17If I work two years, I get residency here for the work permit,
00:24and I can apply to my family, easy.
00:27Do you feel welcome in Portugal? Do you regard this as home?
00:33No, first I think I need my family together,
00:38but in Nepal it's impossible because there is not good salary
00:42and I cannot comfortable there.
00:45I come in Portugal and I work slowly, slowly,
00:49and I feel here is better for the life.
00:53In the case of Portugal, it's recognized by Portuguese entrepreneurs,
00:57by the Portuguese economic elite, that Portugal needs immigration.
01:02Europe tries to regulate immigration, but in the end,
01:08what is important in terms of immigration
01:12are national flux of immigration towards certain economies in Europe.
01:18So it's a problem that is in a way very difficult to solve,
01:23and I don't think that we will have a clear European Union answer
01:30to the problem of immigration, but one thing is certain,
01:34xenophobic feelings against especially non-European immigration
01:41will continue for a long time.
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