{"id":43938,"date":"2018-06-28T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43938"},"modified":"2018-06-27T11:08:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:08:10","slug":"shifting-attitudes-toward-mass-immigration-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/28\/shifting-attitudes-toward-mass-immigration-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting attitudes toward mass immigration in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Gates of Vienna<\/em>, Baron Bodissey<\/a> maps the way public sympathies are changing in the wake of the immigration\/refugee waves of the last few years:<\/p>\n

From Szczecin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, a Razor-Wire Curtain Has Descended\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Immigration-related events are moving rapidly this in Europe summer. The situation is in such flux that now would be a good time to step back and try to get an overview of the process.<\/p>\n

Three years ago the dead baby hysteria, followed by Chancellor Merkel\u2019s invitation to the world (“Y’all come in and set a spell, bitte!<\/em>“), launched the Great European Migration Crisis. Since then I\u2019ve read hundreds of news articles and analyses about the flow of “refugees” and the reactions to their violent and fragrant arrival in Western Europe.<\/p>\n

After digesting all that information I created the following map, which presents my subjective evaluation of the different approaches to migration by various European countries. I\u2019ve rated the policies of 28 different countries (the EU 27 minus Croatia, plus Switzerland) on a scale from 0 to 100, from zero (red) for the open-borders attitude of the \u201cWelcoming Culture\u201d to 100 (blue) for the absolute refusal of mass migration by the Visegr\u00e1d Four (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic). Data from the last six months weighs more heavily in the score assigned to each country \u2014 for example, Spain and Italy recently changed governments, which has strongly affected each country\u2019s migration policy.<\/p>\n

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The grouping of countries based on their stance on migration bears a striking resemblance to the division of Europe into East and West by the Iron Curtain. This is especially true if we roll the clock back three months \u2014 back then Italy and Bavaria would have been quite red. And the analogy becomes even more apt if we remember that Austria was occupied by Soviet troops until 1955, which gives it one foot in the Eastern camp.<\/p>\n

The biggest change in the past three months has been the formation of a new anti-immigration government in Italy. The \u201cxenophobia\u201d of the East Bloc has now broken through the razor-wire curtain and gained a foothold in Western Europe. No wonder EU politics is in such turmoil! After failing to contain the \u201canti-European\u201d attitudes of Poland and Hungary, Brussels now has to contend with Matteo Salvini. Italy is one of the \u201cbig four\u201d pillars of the European Union, so its defection to the anti-migration side carries enormous significance for continental politics.<\/p>\n

The situation is metamorphosing rapidly, but before we analyze the process of change \u2014 the \u201cdelta\u201d, as they say in the military-industrial complex \u2014 let\u2019s go over the snapshot of current European migration policies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Gates of Vienna, Baron Bodissey maps the way public sympathies are changing in the wake of the immigration\/refugee waves of the last few years: From Szczecin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, a Razor-Wire Curtain Has Descended\u2026 Immigration-related events are moving rapidly this in Europe summer. The situation is in such flux […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,62,370,53],"tags":[337,554,558,1122],"class_list":["post-43938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-europe","category-middle-east","category-politics","tag-eu","tag-immigration","tag-refugees","tag-xenophobia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bqG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43940,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938\/revisions\/43940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}