Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-77908.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: How Disney Subverted Immigration Law for Their International College Program</b></a> <p>An artile on Minyanville.com discusses how Disney has used, and helped create, Visa laws to serve their purposes for the International College Program at Walt Disney World.</p>
Originally Posted By Bolna This is a really interesting article. It sparked my interest because I had once considered applying as an international CM for the Germany pavilion at Epcot when I was in college, but then decided that it would not be a good use of time with regard to the career I had chosen to pursue. The study referenced in this article can be dowloaded here: <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1839544" target="_blank">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa...=1839544</a> It offers a very well researched insight into the international CM program and the huge financial benefits it brings for WDW (one estimate is that it saves the company $17 million annually) as well as how Disney is able to influence law making. Most of it is very readable since it is more of an analysis of the facts than a lot of legal babble (the legal babble can be easily skimmed). And I really liked Kit Johnson's conclusion: "The immigration laws on the books and the throngs of tourists wearing Mickey Mouse ears in Florida have one thing in common - they are both inevitably susceptible to the magic of Disney."
