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VIDEO CLIP SCENARIO ANALYSIS Activity 8.

1. One element of immigration that is seen to benefit the sending country is the
payment of remittances, the sending of money back home. These large transfers of
money, from the prosperous developed world to the poorer developing world, are
often viewed as key to the latter’s economic development. This temporary migration
has a positive effect on the sending nations as the returning workers are more highly-
skilled and experienced, able to boost their home economy due to the skills learned
abroad.

2. As Professor Andrew Geddes, an expert in international migration at the University


of Sheffield notes, remittance payments “are a private flow that is far more significant
in size, scale and impact than state to state development aid. They are private flows
that put decisions to consume, invest etc in the hands of migrants and their families.”
As the Philippines-based newspaper the Inquirer reported in 2013, remittance
payments “sent home by overseas Filipinos now reach about $2bn per month, oiling
the country’s robust consumer spending.” In Nigeria, remittance payments are said to
contribute up to five percent of GDP.
Likewise, remittance payments can also be used as collateral for migrants to
purchase houses in the sender country.
Others are less optimistic about the benefits of remittance payments. Remittance is
being relied upon by governments, in absence of meaningful economic development,
as “a support for social stability.” In relation to sender countries such as Mexico, El
Salvador, Philippines, and Morocco, Wise and Covarrubias write that “the chief
benefit of remittance payments are used by states as, in that they mitigate poverty and
marginalisation while offering an escape valve from the constraints of local, regional,
and national labour markets.”
The problem with such reliance upon remittance, say Wise and Covarrubias, is
that it is “in reality a perversion of the idea of development that offers no prospects
for the future.” Poverty is merely being relieved through remittances, with the support
of governments and international agencies, rather than fundamentally addressing
poverty through economic development policies.

3. Learning to live together sustainably in cities is one of the most important


challenges of our time. Cities can provide opportunities unavailable elsewhere, but
can also be harsh and unforgiving environments where the sustainability of lifestyles,
production, employment and civil peace can be stretched to the limit. As places where
individuals, families, and communities exist within multiple and shifting relationships
of interdependence, cities are a testing ground of our capacity to live together. A
major driver of urbanization, migration creates potential for vast economic growth
and is a key tool of sustainable development, yet governments face problems tackling
rising inequality, ensuring migrants’ access to basic services, and protecting them
from discrimination, exploitation and abuse. Failure to grapple with these challenges
means that the developmental potential of migration remains unrealized.

4. The Durban Declaration recognized that xenophobia against non-nationals,


including migrants, constitutes one of the main sources of contemporary racism and
that there are frequent and widespread human rights violations against members of
such groups.
Human rights mechanisms, such as the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights
of Migrants and the Committee on Migrant Workers, have been clear in stating that
although countries have a sovereign right to determine conditions of entry and stay in
their territories, they also have an obligation to respect, protect and fulfil the human
rights of all individuals under their jurisdiction, regardless of their nationality or
origin and regardless of their immigration status.
To address those intolerant views , Louise Arbour, Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for International Migration, said, there was a need for a more open,
balanced discourse that embraced diversity and viewed migrants as a contribution, not
a burden, to economies. Migrants were, in fact, bridges between countries of origin,
transit and destination, fostering innovation and propelling society forward rather than
backward. As pluralistic societies appeared to be the norm and not the exception, she
said her work was supporting the “Together — Respect, Safety and Dignity for All”
campaign, a new dialogue about refugees and migrants to foster social cohesion while
countering negative stereotyping and falsehoods about them.

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