plaintiffs are. expressing feelings i am not very creative yet but i would like to be considered an artist mandate looking for new perspectives real doing and not to be replaced with a 3 field camera doing things differently. come to a place where we reflect on society. on the job of. globalization is being put through its paces there's a whole world of job opportunities out there if you're willing to move abroad and have the financial means but a tiny little virus has infected the globe's highly intertwined supply chains that

flow through china revealing how vulnerable many companies have become on the move new opportunities and new threats the coronavirus has so far wiped 7 trillion dollars off wild stock since their record highs mid february the outbreak began in china which still has by far the most cases chinese factories don't just churn out cheap plastic exports anymore though they supply vital components to the tech sector automobile industry and pharmaceutical companies and the chinese a leader is in artificial intelligence and robotics so the partial shutdown of the chinese economy there was introduced to stem the virus is having a knock on effect for a colonies around the world. it's unprecedented i can't recall anything like it on our planet. when the

color of yours if the corona virus gathers speed and cripples more and more countries and in the worst case we could be facing a global economic situation like we had in 2008 and 9. years into the oppose it here we're very optimistic we think it will be over in one or 2 months. before by. management consultant fun fun is currently pursuing crisis management she and her team advise 60 german firms that do business in china they're much in demand right now because covert 19 is causing havoc fanfan is visiting a client in a small town in northern germany the slaughter group based in hires them it's an automotive parts supplier that had to halt production at its facility near beijing for 2 weeks things are just starting up again but with precautions in place.

for our. people so. far. we're back up to 50 or 70 percent capacity so far and we don't yet know when we'll reach 100 percent because we can't get the staff back into the factory yet. the drop in revenue and therefore the economic hit amounts to several 1000000 euros. funk found in her boss michelle bormann are looking for ways to soften the blow. if as to who would try to organize help for our clients as quickly as possible for example rent reductions or rebates or stretching repayment share deals on bank loans. is there again another problem is that demand within china has

been collapsing and with it demand for goods from germany carmakers and parts suppliers here suffering to. automobile and car sales in the 1st 2 weeks of february in china were down 92 percent so you can imagine the impact on the industry it's a disaster we don't yet know what the consequences will be those for example. international supply chains are collapsing or at risk you can't make a car if the gearbox isn't available. lotus 8 plants in europe have to offset the production halt in china. not for much longer says the optimist fun fun. but c.e.o. your load it is not convinced. this is why it's unprecedented i can't recall anything like it on our planet in my view when we've gone through this

and i hope we deal with it sensibly i think we'll have to think about what needs to change in the future. for that all of us. for example will there be calls to curtail international business travel. fanfan usually travels back and forth between germany and china spending 2 weeks at a time in each country. she has a team of 30 in china but for now she can't go and see her colleagues or her family . so she communicates with them online from her base in hamburg. video calls are the order of the day the company's offices in china poland both area and spain. me and with. me. here in. the corona virus

outbreak may have started in china but it's now become a global problem. if you must know we've shipped a bunch of masks to our offices in china in spain and italy masks are running short we have to review the situation every day and be prepared to react fast and do what has to be done most. funk funk believes the tough measures imposed by the government in china have been effective. in order you know hobart is in germany and europe this is so much freedom. people don't wear face masks time. it's a different mentality in a way of life. 50 and that's why the numbers are rising day by day they hadn't yet in touch and there in any case the virus is threatening not

just the health of individuals around the world but the health of the global economy. well some historians say globalization started in china over 2000 years ago with the old silk road chinese luxury goods started appearing on markets as far away as road it also saw merchants and migrants on the move him over recent times a rush for raw materials as the movement of workers as nations try to feed their hunger for economic growth by sending their nationals abroad to dig up other countries' resources here's a quick look at how labor migration has developed for the 9070s up until today. in the 1970 s. large multinationals sent stuff abroad. they were tasked with up training raw materials for production back home or conquering markets in the main it was u.s. companies that sent their employees overseas often to europe. starting in

1990 companies became increasingly international they moved their production lines into regions with low labor costs the parent company sent employees all over the world and well trained workers from emerging economies was sought in europe and the u.s. . in the past decade trans national investments have risen. complex production processes have emerged requiring global supply chains. digitalisation has led to closer networking. nowadays companies are competing for skilled workers from all over the world. and now the next industrial revolution is upon us factories run by robots machines that communicate with each other not only doing all the heavy lifting but also believing us of more monday tasks in the workplace only thing is the accelerating automation is set to eliminate millions of jobs

optimists say it'll create just as many new once a trade unionists a worked. so last stop the layoffs hands off our jobs we're not going to let them steal our futures colleagues. home months it says bad guy is ready to do battle times are getting hard for germany's union tens of thousands of auto workers jobs are under threat. and save in 10 or 15 years the auto sector could change beyond recognition would you agree with that. 100 percent nothing is going to stay the same we'll have an entirely different auto industry just think of the digital automobile but also the entire complex of production sustainable production c

o 2 free production they'll be so many extreme changes as much of a game changer as the switch from horses to motors and what will that mean. vacillate between optimism worry and anger i'm angry because there's another wave of relocations abroad cost cutting programs and announcements about how many people will be fired and that all has nothing to do with the transition we can ensure sustainable mobility made in germany as an export champion instead they all look at how they can get it done for even less. there's a paradigm change underway in the car industry as it stops making fossil fuel driven cars and converts to electric drive electric cars have fewer parts and more advanced technology automobiles are becoming mobile computers and robots are increasingly doing production work. workers fear they could soon be replaced by

machines because our industry is in the process of a structural transformation we can't prevented. it was asian by the transition to a c o 2 free environmentally friendly technology and we don't want to be there. just as the other people on the production line saying. anyone who works on developing or assembling internal combustion engines right now is obviously very worried but someone who is involved in classical production line work assembling cars says whether a car has an electric or a fuel driven motor really doesn't matter. how do you turn a diesel engine developer into a software developer. we need something akin to a literacy campaign for digitalisation and we have to know what we mean when we're talking about ai you need to get a feel for it and building on that foundation you can train people inside half a year you can turn someone who understands a bit about digitalisation into a software developer. but it's not hard to imagine someone who's perhaps an older

worker who spent 20 or 30 years making combustion engines who suddenly confronted with having to deal with ai and having to undergo a complete rethink and start anew that would be a real problem for many people. we need a system that nurtures further training from the 1st stage to the last in a company and that people are inducted according to their affinity for further training and for those who've got the kind of fear you've just described and that's an awful lot of people we need very specialized programs for those people so change as an opportunity every technological transformation leads to something new and tiredly new occupations and business opportunities spring up but it has to be done properly. thanks for joining us. this time the questions needed longer answers.

now to someone who's seize the opportunities of our globalized world and electrical engineer from india and go to a master's degree in the states and instead of gravitating towards silicon valley opted for germany it used to be almost impossible to get a job here is a migrant i can vouch for that but europe's largest economy is suffering from a massive skills shortage and has loosened the rules. electrical engineer ranjit brahman partly from india has chosen to work in a small town in southwestern germany. in book is old and quaint and ranjit brahman partly lives here with his wife and their daughter. he works for her to electronic and particularly enjoys his time in the company's testing lab he went to graduate school and worked in the united states but

eventually decided to cross the atlantic i definitely thought u.s. forces europe i i always compare 1st challenge i already thought was a language barrier but when i applied for jobs it was not that hard if you have good skills also the work life balance is better in europe i thought and there are also there are so many companies which are flexible. on operate throughout europe like what a trike i mean even were even have an office in india. components manufactured in asia such as these inductors are delivered here berman party does quality control and also works on improving products. his daily routine is pretty flexible. he can decide when to work in the lab the store room and the office. as long as he gets his work done and delivers test results. the reason i chose

to work here is that the freedom you get to work you can choose whatever part to reach that goal so that's what our manager and our company and courageous and that's what i like to work there are weekly meetings to discuss new products that electronic makes a whole range of components including transformers capacitors and. d. lamps and it's keen to hire top notch engineers from around the world i was going to thankful because it's really hard to find really qualified people really not in a big city here it's just in the middle of nowhere he. was going to think of that ranch advice i want to come thought about. and then after austin reticent here of course that impressed. me so i have a lot of experience from that i see many fact rossi's much more experience than me but it's also important because i don't want to people have less experience i only want to be a better. half the members of bremen pollies team

a little it tonic are from abroad. for him it was easy to get permission to come and work in germany he qualified for an e.u. blue card it offers skilled workers who are university graduates from non e.u. states the right to work and stay in the european union. and a new law in germany the skilled immigration act even extends the definition of qualified professionals to include people without a university degree but who've acquired certain for occasional training certificates. when you get this blue card then you don't have any distractions so you can work for 4 years and then. you get this blue card is blue card so you can basically work in any part of europe under this program about 50000 skilled workers came to germany last year. rounded brahman poly is considering moving to one of his company's other locations perhaps but they're not barcelona and says he hopes he'll

be able to take his plants with him. on many indians choose to move to the us or britain for work above all because of the english language germany is still struggling to attract highly qualified workers from abroad and as we heard in that report has now started making it even easier for non e.u. citizens with softer skills to come here but that. new law was a long time in the making germany have been reluctant to see lots of foreigners settle here but the reality is different much of the german population has foreign roots where do the immigrants come from and how well do they fare. migrants in germany the fact. is germany the most popular european destination for immigrants yes it is one in 4 german residents has what austerity is here and immigrant background that means at least one parent was born a foreigner. how does germany rank internationally in terms of numbers of migrants

in 2nd place behind the u.s. traditional immigration countries like canada australia and switzerland all lag behind germany and most of the migrants refugees know in 2018 most migrants in germany came from romania poland and bug area the most common motive for the move better economic opportunities do they all find work you know of the roughly 2300000 unemployed in germany almost half have a migrant background their unemployment rate is twice as high as that of non immigrant why is that the most common reason lack of german language skills the other reason is discrimination applicants with turkish and arabic names have a worse chance of landing a job candidates with the same skills but with german names have

a much higher chance according to studies on migrants well come on germany yes and no 52 percent of germans think there are too many migrants. but 65 percent say that migration brings economic benefits. is the term immigrant background problematic yes the definition is inconsistent in german statistics it generally includes 2nd generation immigrants in other countries such as britain and poland it is usually only foreign born that is 1st generation residents who were classified as migrants. malaysia is fast growing economy is attracting increasing numbers of migrants from neighboring countries but it's not always their own choice to uproot themselves and leave their homes some of been driven out of their countries like the man in our next report that puts them in a vulnerable position they come from an extremely traumatic situation only to end up

in low qualified jobs living and working under appalling conditions. his mother barbara nitish i was born in charge pew a fishing village in myanmar saddled up in the hotel of the day. that there were people burning down our homes we ran outside in fear then we saw a fire engine coming which we thought would put out the blaze in what they might they did as their. own the failure. of their mother the body but instead they sprayed petrol on the burning homes and just made the fire bigger i was forced to leave my home and myanmar without any idea of what to do or where to go. it is

a scene that no. other city odyssey began in 2014 along with thousands of other injured he fled the brutal military crackdown in his homeland to me and man he managed to get in subs muddled into malaysia it was a terrible journey many of his travelling companions died on the way. you're literally. gone we lost everything our home our country our identity. i'm now we're forced to squat on other people's land that we don't even know where . 6 years after fleeing his homeland fabulosity is still struggling to build a life in malaysia his wife and children are sick the money he earns is barely

enough for the family to survive on malaysia has not ratified the geneva convention on refugees that means people like him have no status no rights and no protection. it's hard because i can't work illegally so i take our jobs and just try to get by . i have asthma but if i fall sick employers just fire me and then i'm out of a job again. immigrants are treated poorly even though they make up a key part of the workforce. the capital kuala lumpur has been undergoing a building boom for years malaysia's economy relies on millions of low paid workers

from poorer neighboring countries some are refugees others are economic migrants who come hoping for a better life. but all too often the reality once they arrive is very different thousands of them end up living in so-called cons these illegal shanty settlements that spring up next to major building sites here many unskilled day laborers from abroad risked their lives day in day out for a few $100.00 a month. entrepreneur in the haiti her son understands the difficulties i myself in my dream that i came to. school in. after the war to come 2015 started to develop the family the many movies and

i saw the modem router. beachy the software in life when they want to buy something the problem is that many of them can't pay for things are lining up to 4000000 migrants the thought to be living illegally in malaysia without residency papers or work permits that means they can't open a bank account. the. very simple we was. to bring the offload people to online the real not to bank reo marketplace really truly. insurance companies don't cause airlines bostic of companies to sell their produce in a marketplace saw there my rework of skin by you and to others but at the moment it's money transfers abroad that make up his core business the app cuts out the middlemen who take a big cut for themselves nearly 100000 migrants are now using my cash online like

has done most of them come from bangladesh. private companies are jumping into the breach where the state has failed to act for years the government has been promising to clamp down on the exploitation of migrant workers. but still nothing has been done to introduce a minimum wage ensure safety standards or provide information on workers' rights. to refugee abu sidique has long since given up hope that things here will improve he wants to leave malaysia as soon as possible. a letter there i'm hoping we can research all in america i hear there's good medical care there i hope they can help my family god willing. like many here abu diggs dream would be to return to his homeland me and man.

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