An immigrant from the former Yugoslavia looks at foreign workers.

Vlado VaSicevic is an immigrant from the former Yugoslav Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and has lived in France for 42 years. As for the living conditions of French migrant workers, Sicevic only used one word to sum them up, and that is "hard work". At the same time, the entrepreneurial process of "from black workers to bosses" made him disagree with the statement that "foreign workers robbed French residents of their jobs".

According to Sicevic, the number of workers in the former Yugoslavia has reached 200,000 since the early 1960s. Sicevic's own entrepreneurial process and life experience can roughly reflect the living conditions of Eastern European workers in France.

1964, Wa Sicevic obtained a French visa with the help of her cousin. He clearly remembers that when he first arrived in France, he had nothing and didn't know French, so he had to make a living as a black laborer. At that time, the roof of his residence was broken. In his words, people in poor places have no other skills, but their advantage is that they are willing to endure hardships.

Soon, Wa Sicevic found a job in a decoration engineering team and taught herself to be a painter. Wa Sicevic, who worked hard, won the favor of her boss and colleagues, who helped Wa Sicevic solve the legal residence problem.

197 1 year, that is, seven years after emigrating to France, in 17, Va Sicevic opened a small decoration company named after himself, and hired technicians from the former Yugoslavia to work, thus entering the boss class. Because of exquisite workmanship, people looking for ceramic tile Sicevic decoration are in an endless stream. He proudly said that when the French people talked about "enjoying life", he relied on thrift and saved a considerable amount of venture capital.

Sicevic said that at present, French immigrants mainly come from North Africa, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. Southeast Asian immigrants are mainly engaged in catering and textile trade; Eastern European immigrants are mainly engaged in construction, electrician, pipeline maintenance and garment processing industry; Portuguese immigrants are mainly domestic workers and construction industry. They are all fresh forces in French economic construction and an important supplementary force in the French labor market.

Sicevic said that 80% of workers from the former Yugoslavia have found their own jobs in France, because there are employment opportunities everywhere in France. Sicevic also admitted that the arrival of cheap labor has intensified the competition in the French labor market, but only in this way can French enterprises have the opportunity to reduce labor costs through competition and ultimately improve their competitiveness.

At present, Sicevic is very angry at the popular view that "foreign workers have robbed French residents of their jobs". He believes that French local residents pay attention to pleasure, even if foreign workers do not do much work, local people still don't do it, and the impact of foreign workers on the unemployment rate in France is not as great as expected; In addition, according to the statistics of relevant institutions, the effective labor force in France is not surplus but insufficient, as evidenced by the French government's strong encouragement of childbearing. Therefore, the French government should seriously consider what caused the high unemployment rate in France.