Migration
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Many rural Indians withering under the heat now see urban
migration
as their best option.
Migration
within Europe was negligible when the EU was mainly West European.
The ensuing
migration
eased labor shortages in host countries like the UK and Germany, and increased the earnings of the migrants themselves.
But such benefits do not apply to unrestricted
migration.
As Merkel correctly foresaw, the
migration
crisis has the potential to destroy the EU.
A related challenge is
migration.
Industrialization alone cannot resolve the
migration
crisis, but it can address one root cause, by creating jobs in the countries of origin.
The Lampedusa disaster may have forced us to think harder about human rights, migration, border policies, and why people risk all for a better life.
Unfortunately, authorities in many countries too often confuse the criminalization of people-smuggling with that of irregular
migration.
And trade and
migration
systems are losing support.
With
migration
to leading regions low, poverty remains concentrated in the lagging regions.
The type of
migration
that attracts the most attention is the plight of refugees from conflict zones in the Middle East and North Africa.
But that flow is also accompanied by a surge of more economically motivated migration, from the Balkans and West Africa, for example.
Most concern the progress of globalization: the alleged movement of industrial jobs from Europe and the U.S. to Latin America and Asia; the pace of migration; the influence of investors from abroad and the closing of factories.
Progress in France brought a fairly recent
migration
from country to town.
With legal
migration
channels choked off, desperate refugees have been forced to put their lives in the hands of unscrupulous smugglers.
Meanwhile, another favorite culprit, refugee inflows, has a compelling alibi: there are actually very few asylum-seekers in the countries spearheading attacks on the EU’s
migration
policies.
The cost of failing to create decent jobs through decent schooling is political instability, mass
migration
to the US (from Central America and the Caribbean) and Europe (from the Middle East and Africa), and violence related to poverty, drugs, human trafficking, and ethnic conflict.
One is led by Macron, who is supporting
migration.
Globalization – whether it takes the form of
migration
or flows of trade, capital, and data – poses an equally large challenge, even though it has been a boon to Germany in recent decades.
Such reforms, which would be popular in almost all member countries, need not conflict with the EU’s founding principles if they preserve the right to work throughout Europe, but return some control over non-economic
migration
and welfare payments to national governments.
Even during times of significant migration, the bulk of local populations stayed put and needed good jobs and solid communities.
The forum also encourages the international community to engage with cities as “key actors in discussions and decision-making processes on the design of
migration
policies.”
National and international debates about
migration
are deeply flawed, owing to their focus on security – and so are the policies that result from them.
But political leaders and citizens in the developed world are wrong to think that economic
migration
can be turned on and off like a spigot.
Indeed, liberalization of agriculture would provide a viable substitute for
migration
in many cases.
Because the growth of these cities has been accelerated and magnified by productive technologies, rapid internal migration, and high net reproduction rates, many have reached unprecedented sizes at breathless speed.
Pragmatic governments surely ought to legalize and regulate
migration
instead.
Yet increased
migration
would help the poor far more.
That means putting in place a genuine European asylum and
migration
strategy, establishing a European coast guard and border force, and providing legal and safe routes for both asylum-seekers and migrants.
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