St Thomas – Elgin

Three women on stage holding a framed award certificate at the P2P conference.

Europe faces an immigration predicament. Mainstream politicians, held hostage by xenophobic parties, adopt anti-immigrant rhetoric to win over fearful publics, while the foreign-born are increasingly marginalised in schools, cities, and at the workplace. Yet, despite high unemployment across much of the continent, too many employers lack the workers they need. Engineers, doctors, and nurses are in short supply; so, too, are farmhands and health aides

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/economics-blog/2012/jul/24/europe-immigration-challenge?INTCMP=SRCH