Three young women walking at the end of March as a qualified nurses to Germany. Your southern Serbian home town of Leskovac has no use. What moves you to your last days in Serbia?
For Jovana, Angelina and Miljana a new life in Germany starts soon
“The whole layer of the local emergency room was in my English course. Now they are all in Germany,” said Filip, who runs a foreign language school in the südserbischen city of Leskovac. He founded it ten years ago. At the beginning of English have been very much in demand, now German economy. Filip does not want to be photographed – a typical reaction in the Serbian province. The majority of people don’t want to get in the way. Everything that could go only in the vicinity of a government criticism is avoided. Even if you designate only the facts.
Young people pack up their belongings
His three-German-students have the course “B1-Pflege2”. All three trained nurses and are going to emigrate soon to Germany. Jovana and Angelina have already signed the employment contracts with the Asklepios clinics in Hamburg. Miljana will begin in Tübingen, the new life, and at the University hospital of work.
You like movies, because the fear that someone has something evil might take, you may not have for a long time. They are content with themselves and are already sitting on Packed suitcases. The 24-year-old Jovana justified its step with an unbeatable Argument: “Here there was no Job for me. I’m going to emigrate because of work.”
Gloomy everyday life in the “Serbian Manchester”
The “Here” is to prepare the impoverished city of Leskovac, which is said to have, and the best grilled meat in the Balkans. The once glorious times of recovery by the textile and pharmaceutical industries are long gone. Nobody called the city as once the “Serbian Manchester”. The municipality was one of almost 100,000 inhabitants, now there are just significantly less than 70,000.
Jovana was already three Times in Germany. The work on a trial in Berlin and in Hamburg, and she liked that, the employers were satisfied. “There I realized that the work in Germany and Serbia, is hardly different. Only the care and the Job of a nurse are there, separately, the number of patients is limited. This is not the case in Serbia. A nurse is a Nurse. You can even take care of a whole floor in a hospital.”
The Hotel Beograd in Leskovac is already closed for a long time: The times of growth are over
“Even the Overtime will be paid…”
Such strenuous Jobs remained for the 19-year-old Angelina unattainable: “My neighbor, the cleaner was in the hospital. She took a fast-track course, after this retraining, she now works as a nurse,” she says and shrugs his shoulders. Her Smile looks a little perplexed. The 26-year-old Miljana confirmed it with a serious face: “In my country, the vocational qualification is not appreciated. People get Jobs according to different criteria. Therefore, I see my future in Germany.”
Jovana emphasized that in Germany, the qualifications are included and the Job was well paid. “Even the Overtime will be paid, job tickets. There is a canteen, help with the apartment search, the additional two-month, paid language courses.” All three young women have praised the accuracy of the job placement company from Cologne, as well as the first experience with your future employers.
The Commission of experts against a mass Exodus
In Serbia the average wage is just over 400 euros. The official unemployment rate is about twelve percent. Some experts warn, however, if there is no emigration, would increase unemployment up to 20 percent. Among younger job seekers, you has already grown to almost 30 percent. The mass movement of Serbian human capital to the West is for the government at the same time a blessing and a curse. You may boast of the reduction of unemployment. The reality will catch up with you, however slowly. The Ministry of labour has recently announced the establishment of a Commission of experts to draw up proposals to curb emigration.
Jovana, Angelina and Miljana should be no matter. All three see a long-term private in Germany, do not believe in a return. You want to reasons in your choice home to a family. The parents are not particularly happy to see, however, that Serbia is increasingly becoming a dead-end job – not only for young qualified doctors.
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The Problem of emigration has become in recent years, serious new it is. Even in the socialist Tito-Era Yugoslavia solved the Problem of unemployment through the Export of labour. After that, wars and the times of the rather bad than the right of democratic consolidation. Serbia lost in these decades up to a Million people. For a country with just seven million citizens is a growing Problem. The population shrinks to an annual rate of approximately 35,000 people. Serbia is the world seen even top.
“Who stays here…?”
Jovana speaks well of their Generation from the soul, if it determines: “With our departure, Serbia suffers heavy losses. The well-qualified people to leave the country. Just from my environment I know a number of people that are already gone. It is not just the young. Sometimes there are whole families, sometimes people with a twenty-year work experience.” According to an annual survey of the Regional cooperation Council (RCC), composed of 13 States in Southeast Europe, reported 32 percent of surveyed citizens of Serbia in the year 2018 to play with the thought to leave the country. This is more than in other countries of the Western Balkans.
English teacher Filip can save before work. Although the ongoing Exodus of citizens ensures a good economy, he has become increasingly concerned: “If all emigrate to Germany, who will me and my child cater to medical?”