Geneva — Marking International Migrants Day, the United Nations reports hostility and xenophobia are growing against migrants. It warns the stigmatization and marginalization of migrants amid a raging pandemic is putting many lives at risk. This number includes a record 281 million international migrants, and 84 million people forcibly displaced by conflict, violence, and climate change. "Beyond the images of closed borders, separated families and economic instability, the now two-year-old global pandemic has spawned a new wave of anti-migrant sentiment and the increasing instrumentalization of migrants as tools in state policy. And, yet he notes too many governments continue to exclude migrants from their pandemic social and economic recovery plans because of their legal status.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 19, 2021 07:39 UTC