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To: Snowshoe who wrote (64985)	7/31/2010 3:01:01 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217781

Last time we negotiated in bulk. The end of feudalism in Japan generated great poverty in the rural population, so many Japanese began to emigrate in search of better living conditions. In 1907, the Brazilian and the Japanese governments signed a treaty permitting Japanese migration to Brazil. The first Japanese immigrants (790 people - mostly farmers) came to Brazil in 1908 on the Kasato Maru from the Japanese port of Kobe, moving to Brazil in search of better living conditions. Many of them became laborers on coffee plantations.[18] In the first seven years, 3,434 more Japanese families (14,983 people) arrived. The beginning of World War I (1914) started a boom in Japanese migration to Brazil, such that between 1917 and 1940 over 164,000 Japanese came to Brazil, 75% of them going to São Paulo, where most of the coffee plantations were.[19] en.wikipedia.org We are grateful for the Japanese. They brought tecniques to cultivate fruits and vegetables and greatly inproved Brazilians diet.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (64985)	7/31/2010 3:07:53 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217781

We reverted the wave in the 80's. Sending in people abroad. As the capital was hogged, Volcker screwed us real good with double digit interest rates and our capital was exported, people started migrating. The wave is turning. As life becomes tough countries now needs to give the jobs to the locals and they turn the cscrews on the immigrants that come to take menial jobs. See Arizona immigration laws. In its latest publication, the BBVA Bancomer Foundation outlined a steady rise in international remittances from 1986 to 2008, a year when migrant dollars reached $444 billion. Citing the United Nations, the foundation's researchers estimate the current population of international migrants stands at 214 million. The leading continents for migrants are Europe (70 million), Asia (61 million) and North America (50 million mexidata.info

To: Snowshoe who wrote (64985)	7/31/2010 3:12:41 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217781

Remittances to countries outside the EU–which make up about 70% of the total–shrank by 1 billion euros last year to 21.5 billion euros, after nearly doubling between 2004 and 2008. Remittances to other EU countries fell even more sharply. Remittances From Europe Sink Amid Recession By Brian Blackstone The 2008/2009 recession took a big bite out of a vital source of cash for some countries: worker remittances from Europe. According to a Eurostat report, remittance outflows–which come mainly via migrant workers from outside of the EU who send money home–fell in 2009 after growing steadily since 2004. Remittances to countries outside the EU–which make up about 70% of the total–shrank by 1 billion euros last year to 21.5 billion euros, after nearly doubling between 2004 and 2008. Remittances to other EU countries fell even more sharply. Much of the decline appears attributable to Spain, the largest sender of remittances to non-EU countries. Spain’s booming construction industry last decade drew in vast amounts of immigrant workers. But in the wake of the housing collapse, Spain’s jobless rate has soared to nearly 20%. Total remittance outflows from Spain fell nearly 10% last year, to 7.1 billion euros. Eurostat didn’t have a breakdown between intra-EU and extra-EU flows, but the pattern from prior years suggests a good chunk of the decline came from remittances to outside of Europe. Some of the largest beneficiaries of those funds from Spain include Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia. Workers in Italy tend to send parts of their their paychecks to China, Philippines and Romania. German remittances go mostly to Turkey and Italy. Though most countries in Europe have net outflows of remittances, they’re a big source of financing for countries in Eastern Europe like Romania, Poland and Bulgaria and, within the euro zone, for Portugal. According to Eurostat, current account deficits in Poland and Romania would have been over 50% higher in 2009 were in not for worker remittances. Romania took the biggest hit last year, with remittance inflows down more than 2 billion euros to 3 billion euros. The good news for those countries and others that rely on an inflow of cash from other countries is that recent declines may be starting to reverse now that Europe is growing again. “The quarterly data on remittances show that the negative trend in overall remittances that began at the end of 2007 was over by the second half of 2009 in most EU countries,” according to Eurostat. blogs.wsj.com