International Migrants Day: A Look at Challenges and Opportunities
Migrants not only address challenges but also blossom into economic and social interactions, adding richness to the cultural diversity of host communities
Every year, International Migrants Day is celebrated as a global event on December 18th. This day provides an opportunity to explore the challenges and issues migrants face worldwide deeply. It also emphasizes the values and contributions migrants bring to their host communities. Particular attention should be paid to the values and honors that immigrants offer to their destination communities.
What Are the Challenges of Migrants in Today's World?
Unfortunately, one of the most significant challenges migrants face is becoming individuals without legal status. Many migrants seek to improve their living conditions by migrating to other countries and regions. Still, they often encounter legal problems, neglect, and a lack of access to various essential services.
Among other significant challenges for migrants across the spectrum is becoming a minority in host communities. Migrants face cultural, linguistic, educational, economic, occupational, and social challenges that require joint efforts from national and international communities to create interaction and balance.
What Are the Opportunities and Values of Migrants?
International Migrants Day remains an opportunity to focus on the values and achievements that migrants bring to host communities. By sharing their experiences, skills, and enriched cultures, migrants contribute to the diversity and prosperity of host societies, leading to self-sufficiency in the economic, educational, and cultural development of their new countries. The day also presents an opportunity to enhance national and international cooperation and pay special attention to the human rights of migrants. These opportunities can lead to more sustainable, efficient, and resilient development in national and global societies.
Migrants not only address challenges but also blossom into economic and social interactions, adding richness to the cultural diversity of host communities. Recent entrants into host communities share new skills and experiences, improving large-scale, immigrant-friendly community functions.
International Migrants Day is an opportunity for us to pay attention to the complex issues of migration and strive to help migrants and refugee communities achieve at least a minimum level of human rights and conditions. This day also serves as a splendid opportunity for global awareness, encouraging everyone to understand migration-related issues and take more effective measures towards its resolution.
On World Migrants Day, so, I invite everyone to advocate for respect and equal rights for all individuals worldwide, regardless of their color, skin, race, religion, majority or minority status, borders, or cultural background. This event is perceived as a magnificent opportunity to create greater understanding and cooperation at both national and international levels in the fields of migration and asylum.
This shared understanding allows us to establish comprehensive structures for better migration crisis management and optimal administration of related issues. Ultimately, International Migrants Day serves as a reminder that people all around the world, in their diversity and differences, are equal, and everyone has the right to seek the best living conditions and bring invaluable values to local, national, and international communities, fostering transformation.
Note: This article is written on the occasion of the opening and launching of the Mohajir Times platform publication, focusing on raising awareness about the events of Refugees, Migrants, Women, Culture, Society, Analysis, Training and Discourse.
