YACOOB ABBA OMAR: Migration in SA needs to be viewed through new lens
Countries of origin as well as those receiving migrants benefit from the movement of people
06 November 2024 - 05:00
Expletives were insufficient when progressive thinkers I met on a recent trip to Europe tried to describe their frustration with how their politicians were handling migration — legal or illegal.
“The European population is getting older; able-bodied, young people are unwilling to do the work that migrants do, and yet they don’t want migrants to come to their countries”, was how one researcher captured it. ..
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