Slums. Politics. Migration.

Slums are a BIG political and governmental problem. It is a problem that was allowed to slip out of hands and led the acquisition of acceleration to take over. ‘Holes’ in educational and country’s ruling systems, leads nations into creation of new cities. Slums.

Deprivation of strength, a lack of concentration towards the goal, brings people into that endless tunnel. Everything is reachable and everything is available, but only the ones who know what they want, or the ones who really want - can take it. Certainly, it is much easier to ask, be dependent or seek somebody’s help then to go and try or even show your interest.

In 2004 a large number of Eastern-Europeans immigrants arrived on the shores of Great Britain, with a big hope of a better life. This boom of immigration has caused a mix of feelings between local British communities. Polish are taking over British jobs! They work for pennies! On 11th March, 2008, a television documentary with a very provoking name: The Poles are Coming! was broadcasted on BBC channel that perfectly visualized the current situation in the Great Britain.

A group of British ‘slum dwellers’, living on governmental benefits and drinking beer by the Job Centre, were interviewed by the film crew. Young people were moaning about the jobs taken by Poles, but as soon as they were offered work, providing a decent wage, they started moaning about difficulties of the job and that they would rather stay on benefits than bend their backs on the endless farm fields.

In FIRST WORLD countries, such as United Kingdom and United States, the slums are supported by money injections made by government, which are strong enough to support the ‘weak’ ones. There simply is not the infrastructure in Third World countries that can support the slums, so little progress made, and that is why countries are struggling with continuing problems they have.