English to Spanish: Inscripcion sobre la estatua de la libertad
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Source text - English
“Give me your tired, your poor, your hudled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore”, says the inscription on the statue of liberty. “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Nothing there, you will notice, about the tempest-tossed, being processed in detention centres first. No mention of identity cards or vouchers. Not even a hint that the ships carrying the hudled masses might be fined. But that was old-style globalization, and what we have now is different beast, a time in which your money is welcome anywhere in the world, buy you are not.
A century ago there was a liberalized regime in which capital -mainly from Britain- financed development in the Americans, southern Africa and Australasia. Mass emigration let the people follow the money. When times got tough it was possible to seek a better life elsewhere. Migration was globalization´s safety valve.
The contrast with today could hardly be more stark. The west is not exporting capital to fund rapid development in poor countries; indeed, rising debt burdens and shrinking aid budgets mean that capital is being sucked out of some those countries that can least affort it. There was much high- flown talk at this year´s G 7 summit of the in Genoa of a Marshall Plan for Africa, but little evidence that this was anything more than a sop to the antiglobalisation protesters on the other side of the security fences.
Attempts to shackle movement of labour while giving free rein to capital is a serious design flaw for globalization. It will become commonplace to see economic migrants crammed on the decks of container ships because if the money does not go to where the people are, it is inevitable that the people will try to move to where the money is.
| Translation - Spanish
“Give me your tired, your poor, your hudled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore”, says the inscription on the statue of liberty. “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Nothing there, you will notice, about the tempest-tossed, being processed in detention centres first. No mention of identity cards or vouchers. Not even a hint that the ships carrying the hudled masses might be fined. But that was old-style globalization, and what we have now is different beast, a time in which your money is welcome anywhere in the world, buy you are not.
A century ago there was a liberalized regime in which capital -mainly from Britain- financed development in the Americans, southern Africa and Australasia. Mass emigration let the people follow the money. When times got tough it was possible to seek a better life elsewhere. Migration was globalization´s safety valve.
The contrast with today could hardly be more stark. The west is not exporting capital to fund rapid development in poor countries; indeed, rising debt burdens and shrinking aid budgets mean that capital is being sucked out of some those countries that can least affort it. There was much high- flown talk at this year´s G 7 summit of the in Genoa of a Marshall Plan for Africa, but little evidence that this was anything more than a sop to the antiglobalisation protesters on the other side of the security fences.
Attempts to shackle movement of labour while giving free rein to capital is a serious design flaw for globalization. It will become commonplace to see economic migrants crammed on the decks of container ships because if the money does not go to where the people are, it is inevitable that the people will try to move to where the money is.
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