Top 267 Migration Quotes & Sayings

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.

Canada is lucky enough to be protected both by oceans and by a southern neighbor that is very careful about its migration and its borders. So, we don't have the irregular flow that Europe has been having to deal with. But because of that, people here have seen that welcoming people, helping them to integrate, is actually a tremendous benefit to local economies. It creates jobs, innovation and opportunity. One of the things that comes with that, though, is stemming the flow of irregular migration. But you can't just create barriers - you also have to work with the countries of origin.

Discussing external migration issues is impossible without discussing internal migration issues

I think migration is a right, but it should be an option, not an obligation.

The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.

If the U.S. government is serious about fighting irregular migration, it should support and encourage legal migration.

It's very contrary to the notion of what America is to imagine that we can stop migration.

I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around the time of the Great Migration, and happen to be black, I'm trying to write a definitive account of the Great Migration, the so-called "black experience." That's not what I'm doing, and it can be frustrating.

There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.

We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.

The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this - not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.

We have to cease the migration of Arab potential to the west; they should be respected in their own countries.

North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast.

The failure to manage economic migration properly has put further pressure on transport and housing.

I'm increasingly convinced that there is an ongoing attempt of ethnic replacement of one people with another people. This is not emergency migration but organised migration that aims at replacing the Italian people with other people, Italian workers with other workers.

We will continue our work on the Global Compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration.

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

You have a huge number of people who spend their time writing papers which show that migrants pay more to the country than they take out in benefits, and they say, "Why don't you approve of migration? Why don't you open up borders?" They're not able to empathize with how people feel about migration.

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in the media.

Authorities that erect major obstacles to migration - or place severe restrictions on migrants' work opportunities - inflict needless economic self-harm, as they impose barriers to having their labor needs met in an orderly, legal fashion. Worse still, they unintentionally encourage illegal migration.

Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It's that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated.

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.

The first Black Migration to this country was forced migration. It was the Middle Passage.

In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent.

We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A lot of amazing black people exist in this country because of the Great Migration. That's nation-building.

The migration wave can be stopped.

When it's well managed, migration works in the national interest, for our communities, economy and country.

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

As responsible politicians, you have to manage migration.

The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.

Why are we ignoring the rest of the world? We need to have a fair and global response to migration.

Climate change, migration... they transcend national borders and require an international response.

No matter where you live in the world, the contribution that Chinese migration has had on food culture is undeniable.

One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.

The mishandling of the migration question in Europe has certainly created a very fertile ground for protest parties.

While migration is inevitable, the fact remains that most people leave their homes to escape violence and the certain persecution that comes from it.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.

I am not against migration. It is simply pragmatic to restrict migration, while at the same time encouraging integration and fighting discrimination. I support the idea of the free movement of goods, people, money and jobs in Europe.

If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.

Brexit doesn't guarantee that migration will come down.

The tragic conditions at detention facilities are the result of an intense surge in migration across the border.

When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.

At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end of the Great Migration, nearly half of them were living outside the South in the great cities of the North and West. So when this migration began, you had a really small number of people who were living in the North and they were surviving as porters or domestics or preachers - some had risen to levels of professional jobs - but they were, in some ways, protected because they were so small.

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.

Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

Our work at the OECD shows that migration, if well managed, can spur growth and innovation. Unfortunately, in the past, migration has not always been well managed: migrants have been concentrated in ghetto-like conditions, with few public services or employment prospects.

Obviously, not all migration relates to global warming, but the correlation is higher than most would think.

Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think, we will have something scientifically sound that says something about this phenomenon. The study is ongoing, and I hope that, with a push from both of us, it will provide a sound basis for serious public discussion on the migration issue.

One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.