My friends, this is the experience of millions of migrant youth around the world. • That the widely accepted definition of youth based on age (15 – 29) be reconsidered for policy frameworks and engagement of migrant youth. Instead, the context of experiences and complexity of reality of migrant youth be used as the yard stick, thereby requiring the inclusion of migrant youth in the effective governance of global migration. • It is important to distinguish between economic and humanitarian migrants, however, as it relates to migrant youth specifically, a process of streamlining migrant youth based on needs should be a responsive process rather than relying on the assumption that all economic migrant youth are wealthy and humanitarian migrant youth are vulnerable. Your excellencies, member states and other stakeholders, as we young people, we learn by observing and taking cues from your actions.

Source: Front Page Africa March 12, 2019 19:18 UTC