Neocolonialism and the “Migrant Crisis”
NOVANEWS
By Manlio Dinucci
Global Research
From the United States to Europe, the “migrant crisis” is causing bitter interior and international controversy about the policies which need to be adopted concerning the migrant flow. However, these movements are being represented by a cliché which is the opposite of reality – that of the “rich countries” obliged to suffer the growing migratory pressure of the “poor countries”. This misrepresentation hides its basic cause – the world economic system which enables a restricted minority to accumulate wealth at the expense of the growing majority, by impoverishing them and thus provoking forced emigration.
As concerns the migrant flow towards the United States, the case of Mexico is emblematic. Its agricultural production collapsed when, wi...