Mobility is usually a part of many FTA's. As an example, UK- Australia FTA allows UK citizens to work in Australia for 3 years.(See below). UK actually negotiated hard for this.
Both Chile and Singapore in their FTA's have a exclusive kind of visa called H1B1(different from the popular H1b) which allows them to work in the US indefinitely
Australia has a similar deal with the US.
Honestly, I don't see much wrong with this. We run huge trade deficits and remittances help stabilize the currency to some extent. Offloading a few thousands abroad doesn't matter that much in the long run given that we are unable to generate enuf jobs anyway.
Indians need to understand one thing that i have learnt, AS an immigrant to the west ( and i immigrated a long time ago, as in turn of the millenium period):
The rules of immigration have changed, we now live in NEW paradigm shift of immigration 2.0
Here, i will even draw a line in the sand for those who care :
immigration of humans in recorded history can be divided into two neat piles.
a) 10,000 BCE to 2010
b) 2010- present.
What changed in 2010 ? INTERNET became a broadband media purveyor. THIS is the game-changer in immigration dynamics.
Why?
Because until 2010, you did not have mass internet driven media & entertainment package. Meaning, the immigrant, be him white german or chinku, be it Rome 2000 years ago or new york circa 1959, all faced the SAME scenario : assimilate or wither away. And if you dont assimilate, no problem, your kids definitely will, because where else will they get their culture from, if not us ?
This is why whether you came in the 80s or 1900 or 2005, if you EVER visited the Indian cultural centres in USA or Canada or Croatian cultural centre or Chinese cultural centre, they ALL look the same :filled with either fresh arrivals or old fart immigrant gen who never assimilated and ZERO 2nd/3rd gen in sight.
Well, technology has changed the rules.
now, we have chinku sitting in Canada listening 24/7 to Xi jinping on Xinhua live. Or Indian sitting in San Fransisco and screaming at Arnab on tv.
And when said and done, they watch 'whatever bollywood movie/tv show they wish' with their kids.
Ie, immigrants are now cultural colonists.
And this is why, if you LOOK closely, some immigrant heavy nations like Australia, USA etc. have modified their official immigration services page to now say 'you should also adopt our values and become australian/american by values'. These additions were all done in post 2010, as the paradigm shifted.
And as is standard rule of thumb, whenever paradigm shifts, it takes about 25-30 years to translate to the mainstream and for the mainstream to be aware of the paradigm shift.
So mainstream media- be it west/east are still stuck in version 1.0 for immigrants - they see it as net loss culturally and politically, as all immigrants in history have been net loss to motherland over time.
This is why i am not anti-immigration into the west. because its colonizing them on steroids as far as pace goes - because this is magnified MANYFOLDS by the simple fact that the average westerner has completely catastrophic population growth rate via breeding and immigrants breed a lot more than them, regardless of where they come from ( muslims and africans obviously breed the most).
Population growth rates are geometric functions, meaning, slight change to simple variables like growth rate of ethnicity x vs y can lead to HUGE differences in demographics over 50-60 years or more.
But then again i dont need to tell Indians that who've seen this in play with muslim birth rate vs hindu birth rate. now imagine if hindus were white and had 50% lower birth rate and muslims were desis who had 10% lower birth rate. That is what birth rate in the west is like.
An example of how the mainstream isnt aware of tipping points and paradigm shifts, is the simple google-able fact that more non-white babies are being born in USA as US citizens than white and this tipping point came in 2019 ( it got lost in all the covid noise). So that means, in another 10 years time, the majority of high schools in USA will be majority non white.
Ofcourse, this wont reflect in job market, media, politics, culture etc for another 2 decades, as high school students or 20 year olds dont dictate culture/economics/politics but the 40+ crowd does.
So the shift in US demographics and destiny has already happened. It will be visible in about 40-50 years, because those babies who are representing the shift, are still learning how to walk and havent become power player demographics yet.
- countries like Indonesia, Congo, Philippines and Brazil are not scrutinised to the extent that India is? It has reached the point where historical controversies i.e Aurangzeb et al are brought to the attention of readers in the west. Movies like the Kashmir Files are critiqued or attacked. Sometimes, even something relatively innocuous as Indian TV commercials are mentioned by the Western / international media! Doesn't Indonesia( with the Dutch) Congo( the Belgians) Brazil( Portuguese) Mexico( Spanish, French and Americans), Philippines have historical hot button issues or controversial movies? I cannot for the life of me recall an article in the Western media dealing with these, let alone taking a position on it.
