Global Security: Immigration and Emigration
Immigration and emigration have been part of man's existence since time immemorial. It was easier in the earlier days because there were no defined borders and the major difficulty would lie when one crosses the ocean. Nowadays, migration is at a high pace as a result of globalization. Peoples from Third World or emerging economies migrate to industrialized nations for financial and economic reasons while others try to escape unpleasant pasts or autocratic governments. "
"Migrants are now to be found in every part of the globe, some of them moving within their own region and others traveling from one part of the world to another ((GCIM, 2005)" This is the realities of today's world and globalization. And although more people than ever before are citizens of states with pluralistic political systems, too many people continue to live in countries characterized by poor governance, low levels of human security, corruption, authoritarianism, human rights violations and armed conflict (GCIM, 2005)" thus resulting to migrating to "greener pastures. But the real threat of migration is not the legal migrants, rather the undocumented migrants or those that have tourist status but actually are economic refugees, terrorist or criminals. From the environmental and ecological point, if migration is not contained or controlled a country may find itself depleting its natural resources as a result of a burgeoning population whose consumption requirements cannot be met. They can affect negatively the social, political and economic structure of the country they entered. "In terms of global security, migration is not really a problem if the migrants are documented or have gone through a series of vetting that allowed them to enter a country of their choice. If not abated, the terrorists could wreak havoc in like 9/11, the criminals can launder money, indulge in drug trafficking and economic sabotage, and the economic refugees can end up taking jobs away from citizens and legal migrants.
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