barrier to migration definition
barrier to migration means different things to different people. To someone who might be reasonably content and safe and financially secure in their home country, more minor barriers might ultimately persuade them to abandon their migration preference. Whereas, to someone at risk of losing their life, or of being tortured due to political opinion, religion, race, or otherwise facing adversity, a barrier might need to be very significant to dissuade their efforts to migrate. Evidence of the latter can be seen daily in the risks taken by asylum seekers and other people who cross countries or oceans to get to where they feel safe and to where they hope they will be permitted to remain. We are at the present time