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...more modest means. It's also not certain that the wealth and jobs being created by the boom will benefit native Marseillais. There is still a labor shortage, even though unemployment remains at 17%. Despite the new training centers, many of these unskilled workers are unemployable in the high-tech sectors on which the city is basing its future. Marseillais could close ranks again should they feel left behind by their city's success - and that could bring back the old mentality that until recently only audacious migrants like Dalila Gherras were prepared to brave...
Only a year and a half ago, Rohith Ajjampur was teaching at a computer training school near Bangalore in India's high-tech heartland. Almost by accident, he saw a newspaper photo of a German computer executive wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan, "Are you Indian?" Intrigued, he visited the company's website and saw that it was looking for programmers. Today Ajjampur, 25, is working at the Berlin Internet firm Datango - the company that advertised on the T-shirt. "I never expected this to happen," he says, gesturing to the surrounding high-rises of the East Berlin...
...Ajjampur acknowledges that while he had dreamed of working abroad, he had always thought he would move to the U.S., where communities of Indians already exist in high-tech areas. "I heard a lot about Germany, the racism and all that stuff," Ajjampur says of the country's reputation for racially motivated attacks on foreigners. "To my surprise, the people are really warm and friendly...
...highest percentage in Western Europe. In state elections last year, the opposition Christian Democratic Union used as a campaign slogan "Kinder statt Inder," which means "children instead of Indians." The slogan was meant to suggest that the state should properly educate German children to fill the country's high-tech jobs rather than bring in foreigners. But many people considered the phrase anti-immigrant racism...
...Germany's high-tech industry has made much of the fact that for every visa issued to a foreign computer specialist, at least two jobs are created for German workers in support positions such as customer service. And over the past year, opposition to the green card scheme seems to have become muted, with Angela Merkel, the CDU leader, announcing a nuanced change to her party's outright opposition to immigration to allow a small number of temporary visas to help industry fill its job vacancies. But this is indeed a minor shift: when the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schr...