移民就是发展

Mar 15, 2013 Peter Sutherland

伦敦——2000年9月，联合国千年发展目标将国际社会汇聚一堂实现共同的目标。2015年到期的千年发展目标开启了全球合作的新时代，在千百万人摆脱极端贫困、改善医疗教育机会以及女性授权等领域取得了真正的进展。

原有的八项千年发展目标，包括降低儿童死亡率和普及小学教育因其简单明了和容易量化而备受称赞。我们把抽象而巨大的挑战细分成可以量化的阶段。但阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦曾经说过，“不是所有重要问题都能量化，也不是所有可以量化的问题都重要。”

今天，重要的是我们必须跳出过去行之有效的方法的羁绊。成功的后2015年计划必须打破原有模式并立足于对包括移民等复杂问题在内的发展进程的全方位勾勒。否则全球发展计划也许会变得无关紧要，并失去对利益相关者的关注。

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Jeffrey Zwerner Mar 21, 2013

In terms of ideals, I agree that migration benefits our global populous and that it should and might be an emerging fundamental human right. From the standpoint of politics, practicality, the survival of the current regime of states, and perhaps the exclusive nature of human society, migration will likely never be considered as a solution the the ills of poverty nor a right.
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Rajesh D Mar 18, 2013

Migration is very harsh, its just on paper that policies of barrier free movement etc are present. Clearly each and every country have their share in imposing hurdles for the international migration.
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Procyon Mukherjee Mar 18, 2013

Different countries have adopted different solutions to the same problem, which is economic mobility. In Switzerland for example it is almost impossible to migrate from one Gemainde to another without a strong reason ( a barber from Basel cannot just simply move to Zurich to set up shop). In China also such migrations have to be controlled and put under scrutiny, otherwise rural poverty would shift to urban poverty.

International migration is a far more complex issue and while incentivising migration has its problems, stopping it completely by statute also stops opportunities of economic mobility.
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Zsolt Hermann Mar 17, 2013

The physical migration, internal or external, is an important factor in our global world.
But it is only one of the factors.
Those seeking better life, better opportunities migrate "towards the world", but at the same time the world is also "migrating towards everybody", whether they stay put or move.
Today there is balancing process as we gradually evolved into this interlocked and interdependent network we exist in today.
Slowly geographical place, time-zones, movements will lose their significance, as the similar conditions, lifestyle, problems appear everywhere without restriction.
What people slowly realize is that it does not even makes sense to move, as living conditions, future prospects are fast falling everywhere, even if someone migrates today to a seemingly better place very soon those "seemingly better" places might turn out to be worse than the places they moved from.
Even the US or Europe cannot offer anything more to modern migrants than what they could find at home, and moreover even the original inhabitants of the US, Europe or other previously developed, affluent countries are sinking into poverty and helplessness.
The real task ahead of humanity is to understand two things:
1. The totally balanced, interconnected nature of our world, where we are all sitting on the same boat, either we all sink, or we all sail.
2. The present socio-economic system that is still based on self centered decisions, exploitation of others and the environment has become self-destructive and cannot offer any lifeline for the future.
We need to build a totally new human system, and we have to do it mutually together.
- Edward Ponderer Mar 18, 2013
  
  Even internal migration for work in the United States is more and more proving to be a harsh awakening along these lines. One recent case was of a man who sold his home and moved across country to a worse housing situation at a significant net loss, just to receive a layoff notice from his new employer the day before he was to begin work!
  
  Almost no one guarantees a promise of work anymore, and moving for work, as other factors, are becoming evermore the frying pan into the fire. No set of laws, even if they could get passed, can be hope to protect people. There must be some level of mutual responsibility developed intrinsically between employer and employee -- between all of us -- if there is to be a future for any of us.
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Carol Maczinsky Mar 16, 2013

When you bake a cake and uninvited others join less cake for those who made it.
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Dan Adams Mar 15, 2013

You should a plane and pull this slogan behind it over the fleeing people of Syria right now.
- Dan Adams Mar 15, 2013
  
  *hire a plane*
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Frank O'Callaghan Mar 15, 2013

Is the "migration" of a hedge fund manager to his villa in France, to his apartment in New York and to his country estate in England the same as the migration of an Indian woman to work as a domestic servant in the Gulf?

The issue is wealth and exploitation. We must redistribute wealth, power, responsibility and leisure for a more equal world.
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