Before starting to dictate the measures that countries took to admit or reject people, it is important to highlight migration from a socioeconomic point of view:
Although migration is often seen as a disadvantage for the locals of a given country, the truth is that migration seen from a neutral perspective can be very positive for both countries and migrants. Since situations can be analyzed from different angles or nuances. Migration carried out within the framework of legality “can lead to an increase in the GDP growth rate in the destination countries, an increase in the salaries of migrants, and the expansion of the indirect benefits of remittances for the countries of destination.” origin." (United Nations, 2016); Likewise, migration is also beneficial for countries facing a reduction in the working-age population.
Given the global health emergency due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, many countries have closed their borders, making it impossible for people who do not comply with the protocols adopted for migration in times of pandemic to enter. An example of this is Australia, one of the most secretive countries in applying its “zero tolerance” policy with the coronavirus.
Although it seems that emigrating is increasingly difficult for people due to the situation the world is going through in socioeconomic, environmental and health aspects; Legal migration has not been deactivated and has been adapting based on the progress in the coverage processes in vaccination against Covid-19, taking advantage of the legal and health protocols of each place and which, for the most part, requires counting with the Covid-19 vaccination card, take the viral test to detect the coronavirus, have the passport, the visa (if the country to which you intend to travel requires it), have enough money to support yourself as long as the person goes to be or while she is getting a job. Although each country has its different policy, almost all have similar immigration laws.
The truth is that immigration controls have found in the pandemic a great excuse to impose filters that classify people according to the interests of each territory, making human mobility increasingly complicated as long as borders continue to exist that prevent it.
Migrating is part of the construction of humanity, it is necessary and important to generate intercultural exchange that favors the comprehensive enrichment of territories. Because, it allows business to be energized, technological advancement and the contribution of new socioeconomic ideas, among others.
But it is very important to migrate by acquiring prior information about the conditions, sociocultural and economic aspects of the new destination, as well as issues of rights and serious, concrete and without fantasies opportunities, it is healthy for the well-being of the individual and the society to which it is intended. arrive. In this way you can be part of a new context, giving value to new contexts and contributing much of what you carry with you in identities and conditions that contribute to the strengthening and development of everyone.
Because all human beings are heritage in motion, promoting growth from different aspects and in different contexts; We must, at the same time, be responsible for collective care, trying to manage migration from a legal framework that allows us to enforce the right to free movement, respecting the norms of each place but always from the dignity and human condition beyond the exclusion that some countries intend to assume under the demands that the pandemic brought with it.
Sources
UNITED NATION. (21 de septiembre de 2016). Refugiados y Migrantes. Obtenido de https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/es/la-migraci%C3%B3n-es-beneficiosa-para-todos-si-se-gestiona-correctamente#:~:text=La%20migraci%C3%B3n%20puede%20propiciar%20un,para%20los%20pa%C3%ADses%20de%20origen.