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Migration, Poverty, Human Rights and the Role of States in Europe: the place of international development law in achieving inclusiveness and social justice

The radical strategies of tightening border security within the Europe and increasing European assistance to poor developing countries may sound appealing; however, they are unlikely to reduce migration flows to Europe.

While increasing development at the stage where there is still a ‘wide gap’ between the developing poor countries of Africa/Middle East and developed industrialised countries of Europe will often increases migration, at least in the next two-three decades; radical border security in Europe will expose the migrants to human trafficking in different form and manifestation (forced labour, sex trafficking, removal of organ, domestic servitude, illegal adoption, and servile marriage) contrary to Article 3 UN Protocol on Trafficking in Person. Thus, there is the likelihood that poverty and human right issues will increase in Europe in the near-future, if the State/EU fails to play their role, by changing their policy direction and repositioning themselves by improving their Law and development stance, including effective inclusiveness and social justice through integration of immigrants into the social system, in order to gain the huge mutual benefits from migration.
 
 
 

 

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