Migration can transform lives and enrich societies. It can also generate genuine pressures and vulnerabilities. The question is not whether migration is “good” or “bad", but how it can be managed well.
Managing migration requires safe, orderly and regular movement, governed by institutions capable of balancing individual freedom with economic needs and social cohesion. Photo by Humberto Chávez/Unsplash
Migration can transform lives and enrich societies. It can also generate genuine pressures and vulnerabilities. The question is not whether migration is “good” or “bad”, but how it can be managed well.
Migration is one of the defining forces of the 21st century. It changes economies, societies, families and individual lives. Yet public debate often reduces it to a deceptively simple question, one which drives division and anger: are you for migration or against it?
That is the wrong question.
