The Rocky Road to Globalization:<\/p>\n
Immigration as an economic issue. \u00a0Who gets the immigrants out of their countries? \u00a0Who benefits? \u00a0How do destiny countries pay for services to immigrants in tough economic times?<\/p>\n
Janosch Delcker writes: \u00a0After keeping a studied silence about the anti-migrant violence in eastern Germany the past week, Angela Merkel went to visit this town\u00a0near Dresden on Wednesday\u00a0to\u00a0show her sympathy with the asylum seekers. The locals gave her a rough reception, indicating that her open-door policy on immigration is running into stern resistance.<\/p>\n
\u201cPoliticians, lowlifes!\u201d yelled one man among the booing crowd when the normally popular German chancellor descended from her limousine and turned to wave \u2014 from a safe distance \u2014 to locals in Heidenau.<\/p>\n
After a spate of arson attacks this year against asylum shelters, anti-immigrant protesters last Friday clashed with police in Heidenau during a demonstration against the imminent arrival of a new batch of refugees.<\/p>\n
The incident sparked another outpouring of angst about how to respond to a record influx of refugees, which is expected to quadruple this year to 800,000, testing the country\u2019s liberal laws on asylum.<\/p>\n
Overall in Germany, the population appears to support the idea of providing shelter to people fleeing persecution or violence in their homeland. In a poll by public broadcaster ZDF, 60 percent said they believed the country could cope with the arrivals.<\/p>\n
Another right-wing party,\u00a0Alternative for Germany, which was founded in 2013, has won seats in the European Parliament and German state assemblies, especially in the former communist east, mixing Euroskepticism with calls for restrictions on immigration.<\/p>\n
Saxony and other eastern states where the far-right thrives are also redoubts of nostalgia for the days of the German Democratic Republic, when the state provided jobs, housing, health care and schooling and immigration was almost unknown.<\/p>\n
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