There are few political issues as potent today as migration. Trump and his wall. Brexit. The Front National and Marine Le Pen. Alternative für Deutschland. Public norms have shifted to allow racism and xenophobia to be permitted, even embraced, in political debate. Perhaps the world is waking up to this threat at last. It can be no coincidence that the next Secretary-General of the United Nations will be Antonio Guterres, who, for 10 years as UN High Commissioner for Refugees, succeeded in making migration a central issue in world aff airs. At last month’s UN General Assembly, heads of state signed a New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. And the fi rst side-event on migration and health ever held at the UN drew attention to the positive contribution migrants make to sustainable development. Together with Martin McKee, we took up these issues at last week’s Global Health Lab, held at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Migration and health—from aspiration to desperation
MIPEX Team
MIPEX 2015 team is formed by the members of CIDOB and MPG, the leading organization of the “Integration policies: Who benefits? The development and use of indicators in integration debates” project.
