Saturday 31 December 2022
New Year's Eve! The World has gone round in a Circle. And Britain's Immigration Policies go round in a Vicious Circle!
In order to have a sensible immigration policy it's necessary to close the loopholes. Otherwise that's what people take advantage of. The biggest loophole is asylum. The next biggest is marriage. It's not right or just that foreign men can live in the UK through marriage while British men can't live in their countries through marriage. It's also not equal. Mrs Thatcher promised to close this loophole in 1979, but didn't. The answer, that British men be allowed to live in foreign countries through marriage is also not equal. Because the ability to live in two different countries is an obvious great asset in a turbulent world, and it is one that most Brits don't have. (Please see this blog of 25 March 2020.) But what is worse is that it defeats the object that was originally intended, namely to reduce immigration. Because it's an obvious incentive for transnational marriage... and therefore, obviously, an increase in immigration. The very thing that closing loopholes is intended to prevent....
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In the 1950s Japan was poor and the people had to work very hard. But there was a way out for some people. Women. They could marry a foreigner and live abroad. (Many US servicemen were stationed in Japan.) This was a great privilege. Almost totally denied to Japanese men. So it is strange to hear the argument that Japanese women were discriminated against because their foreign husbands couldn't live with them in Japan. Yet this argument has prevailed. Foreign men have been able to live in Japan through marriage since 1985. This, surely, cannot be in Japan's interests. Japan has far more young men than young women. Every year on 15 January people attaining the age of 20 celebrate Adults' Day in Japan. And every year for decades the figures have shown that far more young men than young women celebrate becoming adults. Allowing foreign men to live in Japan through marriage of course increases this disparity. Furthermore, the average Japanese woman has only 1.4 children, and increasingly those children don't have two Japanese parents.
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