As countries on both sides of the Atlantic ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants, Spain’s left-wing government is preparing to give legal status to hundreds of thousands of irregular workers.…

As countries on both sides of the Atlantic ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants, Spain’s left-wing government is preparing to give legal status to hundreds of thousands of irregular workers. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has championed the amnesty as a way to not only give informal workers legal protections, but to also bring more money into a social security system increasingly under stress by the country’s ageing population.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Data is meaningless without context, bias and choices about what is taken as data and how it is taken. Data is a direct expression of the biases we bring to the table when we first begin with a question.

        If you believe data cannot encode racism into it, you are a fool.

        • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 days ago

          As I said, data cannot be racist. The methodology to obtain it might be.

          But then you should not attack the data, you should attack the methodology.

          Any good study will explain their methodology along with the data obtained with it.

        • shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Racism is the prejuice of a group of people based on their skin color. I’m not making a prejuice because I’m not speculating, and also, I’m not grouping them by skin color even, I also mentioned and showed that first gen immigration assimilated better, and latin americans too. I’m giving you data of what’s been happening, not what I like or not, this is a serious topic

    • shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      What’s the deal? I’m giving the data, I don’t have any problem with any race, in fact, I also talked about south american immigration (be it white or black people from there) getting close to the levels of employment and studies of locals which means immigration with them is working, and a cool (and necessary) thing called “assimilation” is happening.