Modern slavery; Europe's aim of absorbing immigrants is to employ cheap workforce
Pars Today- Using cheap workforce and paying low wages to migrating workers in Europe is just one example of abuse of this group in the green continent.
Most of the immigrants who leave their motherlands for Europe to find a better work, are worried that once their low wage is divulged, they will be threatened to be deported after the expiry of their visa. According to Pars Today, the International Labor Organization has announced in this regard that half of the forced work takes place in the countries with middle or high income and migrating workers are three times more exposed to harms.
According to the report of the Center for Social Justice and the Justice and Care Institute in Britain, wars, sanctions and various kinds of pressures on people in different regions of the world have caused modern slavery networks to increase their activities. These networks earn billions of dollars annually for their paymasters, especially in Europe and America through exploitation of their victims and working on farms and very hard jobs with trivial salaries.
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Germany can be mentioned among the European countries in which exploitation of workers had permeated very broadly among migrating workers across the country.
According to Pars Today, quoting from Mizan news agency, Germany, through testing forced work programs with low wage for migrants and refugees, has caused human rights row. While Germany has called this experimental program as a coherent engine for merging migrants and refugees, critics believe that this country makes use of the mentioned vulnerable group as workforce but behaves them like slaves in a bid to settle the criticism of extremist rightists over the entry of migrants and refugees on the one hand and fill its workforce gap on the other hand.
According to this report, in the state of Thüringen, east of Germany, migrants and refugees get a petty wage equal to one third of the salaries for jobs like pruning trees and cleaning gyms.
The condition of migrating workforce is no better in Britain, either. In this regard, the British Guardian, pointing to the researches of valid universities in the country, wrote in a report that after Brexit (Britain's exit from the EU), the country has faced with shortage of workforce. In view of this, London issues labor visa for migrants much easier than before. But the circumstances have led to destruction of labor regulations and control of executive bodies on labor conditions of migrants. This issue has increased the hazard of "modern slavery" for migrating workers.
The job condition of migrants in France is also an issue of racial discrimination. According to a Euronews report, the research of the "French National Institute of Economic Statistics and Studies" titled, "Migrants and Grandsons of Migrants in France" reveals that the employed migrants often have short-time contracts and most of their jobs include lower benefits, lower income and hard work conditions.
According to this research, some of the groups, especially those of Maghreb and the children of migrants from Sub-Sahara, enjoy lower wages and higher unemployment rate in comparison with their forefathers who had migrated to France.
Key phrases: modern colonialism, European colonialism, racial discrimination against migrants, migrants' situation in Europe, work in Europe
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