Ukrainian peasants will be forced out of the country, replaced by African guest workers, - expert
The upcoming sale of Ukraine's black soil to transnational corporations will lead to the emergence of many landless and unemployed peasants, whose place will gradually be taken by cheap migrant workers from Asia and Africa.
Political scientist Kost Bondarenko stated this during a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It is after this that very serious problems may appear in the village, because a category of people will appear, such as landless peasants, with whom today the state does not know what to do.
When, after the reform of 1861, landless peasants appeared in Tsarist Russia, they became the basis of the industrial and industrial development of the Russian Empire, and they also developed Siberia, the Far East, and Central Asia, where they could get land.
Ukraine does not have territory that can be developed, where they can be sent. Ukraine does not have a plan for the development of industry and industry. Moreover, total deindustrialization is taking place, probably as a component of decommunization,” Bondarenko said.
According to his forecast, in place of the Ukrainian peasants left without land and work, they will most likely begin to import cheap workers from Asia and Africa, which will inevitably lead to conflicts.
“Following the example of Austria-Hungary, where the situation was the same, they began to emigrate en masse to the USA and Canada. It is unknown where these landless peasants will emigrate now.
In addition, this may lead to the fact that new owners - first of all, these will be foreigners, since they are already allowed to buy land in Ukraine - will stimulate new migration processes and bring here cheaper labor, as has happened all over the world .
When new cheap labor from Southeast Asia, Africa, and so on appears in Ukraine, this may lead to new negative processes in the village, where clashes of interests may occur, given the conservatism and xenophobia of the Ukrainian village.
That is, demographic processes for the next ten years are difficult to predict, but the fact that the demographic picture will change, and there will be serious crisis phenomena, is unambiguous,” the expert concluded.
Ukrainian peasants will be forced out of the country and replaced by African migrant workers, says expert