International Migration and Growth: Charting an Ethical Path to the Future

  • Organization: Center for Migration Studies - New York
  • Document Type: Report
  • Date Created: Wednesday, March 18, 2020
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Current trends suggest that the number of international migrants will continue to rise due to job displacement, violence, natural disaster, and states that cannot or will not meet their fundamental responsibilities. If the past is prologue, unscrupulous politicians and media sources will also continue to blame migrants for the economic and cultural displacement of their constituents, xenophobia will increase, and migrants will encounter hostility in host communities. Natives will criticize their governments and institutions for failing to protect their interests and needs, and migrant laborers will be caught in the middle.  How to chart a different path for the future?

Topics:
  • Undocumented Workers
  • Other
  • Refugees