00:00Where are you from originally?
00:02I'm from India, Darjeeling.
00:05Darjeeling, where the tea comes from?
00:08Yes.
00:09How lovely.
00:10Yes.
00:11Why Portugal, if you could have gone anywhere?
00:14You could have France, Germany, the UK, Spain?
00:17If I work two years, I get residency here for the work permit,
00:24and I can apply to my family, easy.
00:27Do you feel welcome in Portugal? Do you regard this as home?
00:33No, first I think I need my family together,
00:38but in Nepal it's impossible because there is not good salary
00:42and I cannot comfortable there.
00:45I come in Portugal and I work slowly, slowly,
00:49and I feel here is better for the life.
00:53In the case of Portugal, it's recognized by Portuguese entrepreneurs,
00:57by the Portuguese economic elite, that Portugal needs immigration.
01:02Europe tries to regulate immigration, but in the end,
01:08what is important in terms of immigration
01:12are national flux of immigration towards certain economies in Europe.
01:18So it's a problem that is in a way very difficult to solve,
01:23and I don't think that we will have a clear European Union answer
01:30to the problem of immigration, but one thing is certain,
01:34xenophobic feelings against especially non-European immigration
01:41will continue for a long time.
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