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A world without borders

By Peter Curson - posted Monday, 21 December 2015


Many currently argue that we also need to find new ways to address migrant issues. In the context of very low birth rates and rapid population ageing throughout the developed world we need to fully appreciate what migrants can offer.

Gone should be the days when migrants were simply recognised as a cheap unskilled labour force, allowed in for a limited time to do jobs that no local wanted to do, and then expected to leave. We now need to appreciate their critical contribution to both the unskilled and skilled sector of our economies as well as the contribution that well educated migrants can make and how ethnic and cultural diversity substantially add to a nation’s culture.

Critically we also need to try and fully integrate them into our society, provide training, ensure access to education, housing, and social and health benefits and make sure that their children are allocated slots in day-care facilities or local schools.

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Without any doubt migration is changing our world and the way we view security.

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Peter Curson is Emeritus Professor of Population and Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University.

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