Letters: Accept migration

With reference to the article, "Europe's migration crisis" (August 20), the continent's migration policy is like apartheid: There is no noise when rich people want to migrate; it becomes an issue only when the illiterate and the poor want to do so. Britain has laid out the red carpet for those who can bring money to that nation. But those not earning and arriving in that country in search of greener pastures are frowned upon. Recently, thousands of Africans tried to cross over to Europe in unsafe boats. Europe is facing its worst refugee crisis since World War II. Fortunately, some nations such as Greece and Italy have accepted these hapless people.

Is the situation any better in India? Here, politicians of one state do not want migrants from a particular state, as they believe that the latter would take away the jobs of locals. There are taxi drivers and milkmen in Mumbai from states such as Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Are Mumbaikars interested in these jobs? Then why this hue and cry about migration?

If a bank employee gets transferred from one state to another, there is no noise. The organised sector does not attract any row on migration. Migration is an age-old phenomenon and it will always continue, even if human beings start living on other planet. Then there will be migration of people from earth to other planets and vice versa.

Deendayal M Lulla Mumbai

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