Migrant
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The trauma specialist Paul Stevenson described a demoralization syndrome that he observed during his work at
migrant
detention centers on Nauru, off the Australian coast.
Migrant
source countries should have national disaster risk assessments (so that they can plan for potential losses), comprehensive hazard maps, and disaster early-warning systems to reassure their citizens.
While much was made of the
migrant
caravan making its way from Central America through Mexico, issues such as trade with China, Iran, North Korea, and even Russia and cyber subterfuge didn’t get much traction.
And yet European solidarity is fraying, to say the least, thanks to the
migrant
crisis and the economic aftermath of the 2008 financial crash.
But the fair distribution of health-care services across native and
migrant
populations is often a thorny policy issue.
This does not imply that every vulnerable
migrant
must be accepted.
In the Kyrgyz mountains, there were entire villages with not a man in sight; they had become
migrant
workers in Russia.
While rural
migrant
workers will be encouraged to settle in small and medium-size cities, migration to metropolises will remain tightly controlled – or even be more strictly regulated.
Moreover, social protection must be extended to
migrant
workers, whose participation rate in basic medical insurance in 2009 was 13.1%, while 9.8% were covered by the state pension scheme and just 3.7% had unemployment insurance.
A rapid decline in exports has caused the closure of thousands of factories in the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas, and tens of millions of unemployed
migrant
workers are now returning to their hinterland provinces.
For example, policymakers can draw on successful programs to integrate
migrant
children into educational systems.
Specifically, he proposed requiring EU migrants to spend four years working in the UK before becoming eligible for the top-up welfare payments that low-paid British workers receive, and to end benefit payments for
migrant
workers’ children living in their home country.
Polls consistently show that a majority of Americans want border controls.To be sure, the Trump administration’s policy of separating
migrant
children from their parents went further than most Americans were willing to accept.
At the height of the
migrant
crisis, it hoped, for once, to receive some.
The increase in FDI inflows, access to sovereign debt, and sharp expansion of
migrant
remittances have all contributed to a shift in the revenue base away from commodities.
Not only are
migrant
flows into Europe shattering records from one month to the next; migrants’ primary entry points are changing as well.
By allowing EU leaders to avoid acknowledging the long-term nature of the
migrant
challenge, this approach weakens their motivation to take collective action.
If Europe is to adapt to the
migrant
challenge, and design realistic and productive solutions that heed European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s call for “collective courage,” it must target the root causes and enablers of the current migration wave.
Only then can leaders design the kind of thoughtful, comprehensive, and forward-looking strategy that the
migrant
crisis – and, indeed, the EU’s own survival – demands.
That suspect terrain is clearly visible once more in the absence of support for the EU’s proposed
migrant
quota system, which would allocate refugees to the member states on the basis of fair criteria.
But the charges brought by the Swiss and American authorities focus on bribery and embezzlement, and do not address another egregious injustice: the treatment of the
migrant
workers in Qatar who are building the stadiums for the 2022 FIFA Football World Cup.
Recently, Nepal’s labor minister publicly spoke out about the government of Qatar not allowing his country’s
migrant
workers to return home to mourn relatives who died in the April 2015 earthquake.
The Chinese people are no longer satisfied with rule by law and are demanding an end to systemic corruption, inadequate land rights, discrimination against
migrant
workers, state-owned enterprises’ privileged position, and weak protection of intellectual property.
And an added benefit of a thriving economy will be lower hostility to immigration, making it easier for Britain to negotiate sensible regulation of
migrant
flows.
Banks are creatively tapping into
migrant
worker remittances, multiple-family households, and other previously overlooked sources of potential income and creditworthiness.
First, there is the
migrant
crisis in southern Europe, a threat more diffuse but no less dangerous and challenging than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
But most
migrant
workers now find jobs in services rather than in factories.
An important and controversial offshoot of the agenda is the action plan against
migrant
smuggling, which may include the use of military force to stop the smugglers’ boats.
Poverty also induces husbands to work away from home as
migrant
laborers, creating an environment in which sex with multiple partners is more likely.
Among China’s 140 million
migrant
workers, 80% have only nine years or less of formal education – far short of what high-income countries require.
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