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The new chief of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Amy Hope laid out her vision for tackling migration and stressed the importance of the economic benefits migration can have on the countries receiving migrants
The new chief of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Amy Hope laid out her vision for tackling migration and stressed the importance of the economic benefits migration can have on the countries receiving migrants.
Speaking from Geneva, Amy Pope focused on the evidence that migration can boost economies by providing well-needed workers or new innovations. She added that she would work with governments to find opportunities for people who are on the move rather than just treating the issue as a problem to be solved.
Pope also advised that migration was driven by people seeking work and that if regular realistic pathways were created and a comprehensive approach adopted towards migration, then the positive benefits of migration could be realized. She further said that the agency was concerned by the normalization of people dying when crossing the Mediterranean Sea. There have been hundreds of recent deaths due to unseaworthy or overloaded boats capsizing or breaking apart. She laid emphasis on a change of mind towards the migrants and a greater understanding of the reasons that drive them to take the hazardous mission of crossing the seas. They are people first before labeling them as migrants.
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Pope recently won her bid to become the first woman to lead the U.N. migration agency, defeating the current IOM Director General Antonio Vitorino in a vote for the position. The organization has nearly 19,000 staff members working in 171 countries to promote “humane and orderly” migration.
