The new head of the United Nation’s migration agency will visit Africa on her first official trip on Sunday to highlight the scale of migration happening around the continent.
Amy Pope, the first woman elected to lead the International Organization for Migration , will then head to Brussels as the 27-member European Union bloc deals with a recent influx of migrant arrivals in Italy.
“Ensuring that there is better protection and access for migrants to services in that context is important. Pope played up the economic benefits of migration for rich nations with aging populations and declining workforces in the face of build-the-wall rhetoric in the United States to block migrants from Latin America.
But critics insist such policies are likely to encourage migrants to flock to the United States, and say they take manual and blue-collar jobs and put downward pressure on wages. She pointed to shrinking humanitarian aid budgets, the need to draw in the private sector into the conversation to support migration, and signs that migration is set to continue to grow.
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