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Chile has immigrants from all over the world. I think Colombia is starting to gain more, and Brasil would probably be up there also.
That must be a new thing in Chile? I was there in 1997, and didn't pick up on any immigrant kind of vibe whatsoever.
But, I guess that was 17 years ago, and since then it has been getting the reputation as an economic miracle, which always attracts the immigrants to some degree.
Where are the majority of the immigrants to Chile coming from?
There are quite a few Asians in Central America, mostly Koreans. They move there mostly to open up sweatshops. When you buy clothes from jc penny or target and it says made in Honduras or made in Guatemala chances are it was made by a 15 to 25 year old female who gets payed and treated like **** by her Korean boss.
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I have heard the same from factory workers in Tijuana, many single mothers who really need the jobs. It angers me that a holes come to make a profit and mistreat the local populations.
As a person who had the 'pleasure' to live in South Korea for 7-8 years, Koreans also treat each other terribly.
It was VERY COMMON for me to meet young Koreans who were simply NOT being paid their wages, due to the fact that their employer decided they didn't want them to quit, or just decidedly they couldn't afford to pay their employees.
Than the employees got in this weird situation where they just worked for free for a few extra months HOPING they'd get paid, and maybe they might, or maybe they never would. In Korea, wages are paid monthly, not weekly, so it was easy to work for NOTHING for a few months to finally come to the sad conclusion that you'll never get paid, and just give up.
That must be a new thing in Chile? I was there in 1997, and didn't pick up on any immigrant kind of vibe whatsoever.
But, I guess that was 17 years ago, and since then it has been getting the reputation as an economic miracle, which always attracts the immigrants to some degree.
Where are the majority of the immigrants to Chile coming from?
I saw mostly from peru and columbia.... other places maybe haiti. bolivia, U.S, Spain, Argentina etc
As a person who had the 'pleasure' to live in South Korea for 7-8 years, Koreans also treat each other terribly.
It was VERY COMMON for me to meet young Koreans who were simply NOT being paid their wages, due to the fact that their employer decided they didn't want them to quit, or just decidedly they couldn't afford to pay their employees.
Than the employees got in this weird situation where they just worked for free for a few extra months HOPING they'd get paid, and maybe they might, or maybe they never would. In Korea, wages are paid monthly, not weekly, so it was easy to work for NOTHING for a few months to finally come to the sad conclusion that you'll never get paid, and just give up.
That is horrible and completely unacceptable. Unfortunately, I am not surprised
As a person who had the 'pleasure' to live in South Korea for 7-8 years, Koreans also treat each other terribly.
It was VERY COMMON for me to meet young Koreans who were simply NOT being paid their wages, due to the fact that their employer decided they didn't want them to quit, or just decidedly they couldn't afford to pay their employees.
Than the employees got in this weird situation where they just worked for free for a few extra months HOPING they'd get paid, and maybe they might, or maybe they never would. In Korea, wages are paid monthly, not weekly, so it was easy to work for NOTHING for a few months to finally come to the sad conclusion that you'll never get paid, and just give up.
Thats pretty sad, It must be very demoralizing to a young person.
I know Brazil is getting a lot of immigrants from Haiti. They enter the country through Acre, state in the Northern part of Brazil and often find themselves in small towns where there is no infrastructure, no jobs and they end up in makeshift shelters living in horrible conditions.
Many of these Haitians eventually get their papers and move on to other cities where they find jobs and are able to settle.
In Sao Paulo, there is a lot of immigrants from Bolivia and Paraguay who work in sweat shops.
In addition, Brazil is getting a lot of immigrants from Angola, Cape Verde, Portugal, Nigeria,Senegal, China and Korea.
What I can extrapolate from that is that if we look at the ratio between immigrants and general population, we can see that Argentina has most followed by Chile and in last place, Brazil. I'm surpriced at Brazil's low levels of immigration considering their huge population... the article suggested Brazil being a more attractive destination...
Outside Portugal and Brazil hardly anyone speaks Portuguese other than people who've already left those countries and some countries in Africa where most wouldn't have skills beyond manual labor.
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