Visas between Individuals Program

Description

Julien Carbonnell:

"VIP "would tie together the interests of the working classes of rich and poor countries through sponsorship of visas and sharing of the gains from migration. So, migration would move from being one of the most divisive issues in wealthy countries to a widely popular source of growing middle-class income.

Native-born citizens sponsor visas for migrants, who in return share half of the increase in earnings they achieve by coming to wealthy countries with their hosts. Citizens select migrants to sponsor with whom they often have a personal connection, of heritage, religion, language or interests. Local communities regulate how many migrants their citizens can host and many citizens in search of opportunity move to cities that are open to migration. And while migrants would be much poorer than their native hosts and would likely be somewhat patronized by him, the VIP would begin to break down the barriers of nationalism of the wealth countries against the plight of poor countries."

(https://medium.com/@simondlr/radical-markets-in-the-arts-13c27d3b7283)