Without migrants from Saudi Arabia will expel five million people
MOSCOW, March 12 — RIA Novosti, Igor Gashkov. Saudi Arabia is developing a program for the deportation of approximately 20% of its population to five million illegal immigrants.
This decision is discussed in the Consultative Assembly (Shura) of the country at the initiative of one of deputies — Dr. Fadhel Cage.
According to the newspaper Al Hayat, the government of the Kingdom fear that migrants will require “to naturalize them”, giving Saudi citizenship
The proposed campaign for the expulsion of illegal immigrants will not be the first: from 2012 to 2015 state put 243 thousands of Pakistanis — some on charges of Islamic terrorism.
When migrants are imported Muslims
The beginning of mass migration to the Kingdom of the Muslim Holy places was laid in the 1970-ies on the background of the oil boom of those years. Visitors needed not only because of the growing needs of the economy. Is it the features of Saudi laws. According to the accepted in the country of restrictions, women are not allowed to drive a car. The migrants were organised by chauffeurs, and in addition mastered and less skilled job — movers, babysitters and part-time workers.
The Saudi system of labor migration was called “kafala”. According to the rules of kafala, the right visitor accommodation depends on the intentions of his employer. Without the consent of the Saudi, zalezshego migrant, he cannot change jobs. Moreover, there is no question about how to find another employer.
Despite the paternalistic approach, only a few visitors got the right to live in the vicinity of the hosts.
In the Saudi cities have formed a ghetto of migrants and the total number of migrant workers rose to impressive marks — 30% of the population, according to the 2010 census
Saudi Arabia has no rubber
That mass migration becomes a challenge for the Kingdom’s economy, economists warned the monarchy long ago.
According to statistics, 12% of the population is unemployed, including 25% of young men and 75% women
According to the newspaper The Guardian, Saudi employers have a habit of hiring foreigners, even in cases when you could apply to the local worker. “The whole economy is controlled by outsiders” — sums up edition.
Many Saudis believe that migration increases the level of crime, and migrant workers attacked more prosperous in economic terms, of local. However, dissatisfied and displaced. In 2014, when the oil prices went up, the country held a protest Pakistani workers who are not paid for their work. In January 2017, it came to clashes in the Holy city of Mecca, culminating in the arrests of immigrants. Against this background, the Human rights organization Human rights Watch claims of mass violations of the rights of migrant workers, especially in the framework of kafala. Migrant workers fleeing from their “owners” and add the number of illegal immigrants.
Aggravates a situation and religious tensions. Employers in Saudi Arabia are Muslim, and guest workers often adhere to the Christian faith. This applies in particular to immigrants from neighbouring Ethiopia and also popular around the world Filipino women. However, the laws of the Kingdom the construction of churches is forbidden. So illegals Christians have to practise their faith in secret.
In addition to the traditional suspicions of the Christians, the Saudi authorities also fear the usual Islamic extremism
In 2016, the Pakistani illegal immigrant Gulzar Abdullah Khan blew himself up at the us Consulate in the city of Jeddah. Several of his fellow workers he was then arrested on suspicion of having links with the Taliban.
The way out of the impasse: “Program-2030”
Accepted in Saudi Arabia at the highest level “Program-2030” has set itself the ambitious goal is to get rid of dependence on raw materials.
An important part of this plan is to develop local competitive production.
With this purpose it is necessary to overcome unemployment caused by distortions in the education system.
The Kingdom produces too large number of Islamic scholars, many of whom can’t find work.
But another cause of unemployment, competition from low-wage migrants. Thus, the deportation carried out in 2013, deals in Riyadh as part of a program to improve the health of the country.