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This migration is a complex issue, influenced by multiple factors like poverty, unemployment, climate change, conflict, and political instability in their home countries. Addressing the root causes of such migration involves comprehensive efforts to improve economic conditions, governance, and education in African countries, as well as creating safe and legal migration pathways.🙏😭

As per OP to those interested on perspectives on the subject.

On #WorldRefugeeDay listen to Migration, Conflict & Crisis, with Lucinda Platt, LSE Social Policy in conversation with migration experts around the world about who, faced with with war at home, moves away, stays put or returns. https://buff.ly/4cat00M

Economic growth will bring prosperity to all. This is the mantra that guides the decision-making of the vast majority of politicians, economists and even human rights bodies. Yet the reality – as detailed in a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council this month – shows that while poverty eradication has historically been promised through the “trickling down” or “redistribution” of wealth, economic growth largely “gushes up” to a privileged few. In the past four years alone the world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes, while nearly 5 billion people have been made poorer. If current trends continue, 575 million people will still be trapped in extreme poverty in 2030 – the deadline set by the world’s governments to eradicate it. Currently, more than 4 billion people have no access whatsoever to social protection.

Economic Development as a Social Determinant of First Nations, Inuit and Metis Health Over the past 40 years, the landscape for economic development in Indigenous communities has undergone dramatic changes, from a colonial framework of development towards decolonization. https://loom.ly/pOKu8oI

📘NEW PUBLICATION: The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality highlights often overlooked mobility patterns within and between regions of the Global South, and the inequalities faced by those who move.      Edited by UNU-CPR's Head of Equitable Development and Migration Heaven Crawley and Joseph Teye of the University of Ghana, the Handbook sheds light on how the intersectional themes of gender, race, poverty and income inequality, migration decision making, intermediaries, remittances, technology, climate change, food security, and migration governance impact South-South migration.      To access and learn more about the Handbook: https://lnkd.in/eW2NDG9H  

It is incredible that China's one child policy was not given the credit it deserved when it was implemented. If not for the one child policy, China could have a population of close to 2 billion people today, with the majority being poor and undereducated. The carbon footprint of the additional 600 million people could be devastating to the climate. Instead, the media in the West has been decrying the 'inhumane" treatments of selected families (note: the one child policy did not apply to ethic minorities). Now that China has relaxed the policy, the West is quick to point out how devastating it could be for the environment! I wonder how many critical articles have been written about India's exploding population? #climatechange #populationcontrol #china #mediabiases https://lnkd.in/gmdGvpaw

THE ROLE OF CITIZENS IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Is there any country on this planet that is free from challenges? All the continents are bedevilled by one kind of predicament or the other. From Europe to Americas,Africa to Middle East,etc. There is no longer any El dorado in the world. Many people left Nigeria for other climes in search of greener pasture, many of them died in the deserts and sea, unceremoniously. Those who were lucky to reach their destinations only to meet even more complicated challenges there. In Europe,for example,the far-right political parties such as National Rally in France are winning elections . These far right politicians such as Jordan Bardella are anti-immigrants. Any undocumented immigrant is not welcome.In the Middle East especially,UAE ,Saudi Arabia,Jordan,etc,our women are subjected into servitude . And that even in diaspora,you are not completely divorced from the problems you fled from home .Apart from difficulty to get assimilated into the new environment they found themselves. For instance,there is always a problem in raising and training your children in accordance with your indigenous culture tradition and belief. This includes respect for parents and elders,eating habit, mode of dressing,language,eating habit,family solidarity ,good neighbourliness etc. In the middle east,we have wars not only between Hamas and Israel but Huthis and Hezbollah of Yemen and Lebanon are involved. Syria is in shamble. Iran and Israel. Then we have a raging war between Ukraine and Russia. In the Latin America and Caribbean ,there is even no government in Haiti. The gangs are in control . In Columbia,the drug barons call the shot. So, there is no escape and no shortcut to uhuru. Then what is the way forward? We must change our mindset. Today,courtesy of globalization,the whole world is interdependent. A war between Ukraine and Russia or even change of power in U.S. and Europe could impact on the whole world as we are witnessing. Secondly, there is no messiah in the world. Peter Obi ,an averaged politician who ruled Anambra like every mediocre politician cannot perform than president Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The noisemaking role he is playing since his failed presidential ambition is just a characteristics of political demogogue. And political horse-trading by tired old politicians scheming to wrest power in the next election cannot be equated with French Revolution or what Deng Xiaoping did to China . The only way forward is each and everyone of us should rise and play his own part as a citizen. To sleep and expect the the few political office holders do the work cannot work. They can't succeed if the rest of the citizens are not ready to make the necessary sacrifice .

A very interesting article by Kenneth Rogoff! Despite my desagreement now and then, it has a very good point about the importance of cross-country inequality and the level of poverty in developing coutries, as well as the role developed countries might have in supporting sustainable development, especially in developing economies.

United Nations Global Compact for Migration FULL VIDEO: https://lnkd.in/dcn9RPe3 Follow us: https://lnkd.in/dgdVVveY https://lnkd.in/dS2CRBBN #cos #conventionofstates #conventionofstatesnow Discover why people migrate worldwide. Learn about the factors driving migration, such as poverty, health issues, and government policies. Explore the importance of cooperation and partnerships for managing migration effectively. Find out how national action plans and aligning with global frameworks play a role. #GlobalMigration #CausesOfMigration #MigrationImpacts #MigrationSolutions #CooperationAndPartnerships #NationalActionPlans #GlobalFrameworks #MigrationManagement #PovertyAndMigration #GovernmentPolicies