Join the Peoples General Assembly for Development Justice: For a World without Forced Migration!

[Ramon Bultron]

Join the Peoples General Assembly for Development Justice: For a World without Forced Migration!

 

Date: 24th September 2014
Time: 4:30 to 7:45 pm
Location: The First Presbyterian Church, New York City
12 West 12th Street (at Fifth Avenue) New York, New York 10011
Take the N, Q, R, 4, 5, 6 to Union Sq or F,M to 14th St.

 
Neoliberal globalization as a framework for development has only worsened the structural conditions that forces people to migrate for survival and violates the rights and dignity of migrants and their families and communities.  The United Nations and governments are currently discussing a new development agenda that is supposed to “leave no one behind” and ensure equitable and sustainable development for all.

But what is at stake for migrants in this new agenda?

Current proposals on the table profess to address the particular needs and problems of migrants as a growing demographic segment of the population that is vulnerable and marginalized.  But they also aim to instrumentalize migration for global capitalist accumulation. It is about facilitating, systematizing and legitimizing labor export as a form of labor flexibilization.  It aims to use remittances for financing development in order to justify government cutbacks in social spending.  It claims to protect the rights of migrant and refugees while turning a blind eye to the increasingly repressive measures enforced against migrants in receiving countries.

We need to change the economic, political and social system to ensure the end of forced migration and the conditions that perpetuate the super-exploitation of migrants.  We need development justice if development is to truly lead to a just, equitable and sustainable way of living for the people and the planet.  

 

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