Today, immigration has become, among other things, the only source, the only measure of well-being, the gauge of social success and recognition by one’s own people of personal merit. It is the main criterion for measuring values where freedom, talents, capacities, the basis of high moral and individual qualities of an unbalanced and decimated population are expressed, the cause of which requires rapid reflection for the foundation of the conduct of all.
But before addressing the question, we must remember that immigration dates back to time immemorial, to the birth and evolution of the life of humanity, and that there is no country exempt from the migratory phenomenon. Indeed, settling down and working permanently or for a long period of time in a country other than one’s own is a universal phenomenon which, to say the least, has had its history for having withstood the breaks of time and the ups and downs of space. Also, it has the merit of having contributed not only as a means of life to the individual, but also as an essential factor in the economic growth of countries. And the most illustrious example of this is provided to us by the United States of America, born from the ashes of immigration to the discovery of the continent by Christopher Columbus in 1492 where the first immigrants appeared including the English of the Mayflower (the Pilgrim fathers looking for a place of worship) in 1620…
Among us, we can cite the Fulani, nomadic and sedentary populations who left Egypt, in West Africa, from Senegal to Chad, according to Professor Cheikh Anta Diop: “The Fulani would be Negroes who mixed with white elements from abroad within a black Egyptian population…” In the same vein, we can cite the Lébous in this book available on the UNESCO website: The Lébous: a people of migrants, a independent people. “The Lebou settlement of the Cape Verde peninsula is the result of waves of migrations in the 15th and 16th centuries…”
In view of these considerations and without dwelling any further on its advantages, its disadvantages and after observing its surge which was at the origin of an obsession which, currently, has shaken and occupied the entire international scene, a question can be asked: What is the real cause of the surge in immigration? In other words, what was the decisive reason behind the surge in immigration?
The answer to the question is to be sought at the crossroads of demographic growth and the major scientific and economic transformations that the world has experienced since the beginning of the industrial era. Indeed, certain studies have demonstrated that demographic growth is not the origin of underdevelopment if we refer to England which developed with strong demographic growth in 1920, China which had more than 600 million in 1950 becomes the second economic power in the world in 2015 with a population of more than 1.200 billion inhabitants, India, an emerging country with its many poor people, has become the 9th economic power in the world in starting from a plan called the “Green Revolution” and “diversified economic successes”…
However, if demographic growth is not the cause of underdevelopment, it can explain the surge in immigration from a social context where there is an excessive fertility rate which affects education. which no longer adequately responds to the challenges of the present and the future. Furthermore, if we talk about education, all eyes are on the State while there is no one that was at the origin of the education of its populations due to the fact that it does not is not his vocation. Indeed, one of the vocations of the State in this area consists of implementing material, technical and financial means to develop the education of its populations which, itself, is provided by the family.
Education is the set of rules which prepare the child for adult life, teaching them those of life in the family and in society, from birth to adulthood. If it fails, the family is blamed and must fully assume its responsibility first and foremost before the State. Certainly, today, children’s education is faced with a double crisis of growth and transformation which requires large resources so that families with modest incomes will always be confronted with educational difficulties, hence a revision of the birth rate falls to them instead of clinging to or attacking the State, although I understand that in life everything is political…
YOURSELF
Doctor in Political Science
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