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How coronavirus has exposed the pain points of migration and globalisation

Migration, a key enabler of global integration, is being viewed with trepidation for its propensity to alter demographic profiles and wreck health care metrics

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Cross-border movement of population promotes multi-culturalism, boosts economic growth and has been known to improve work ethic as well

Badri Narayan
Rewind to the decade of the 90s. That was the era in which India was ushering in economic liberalisation and a catchphrase called globalisation began capturing political imagination the world over. National boundaries became blurred, economic integration and cross-border migration gathered momentum, as world leaders bought the globalisation story even before it began to play out.

Fast-forward to the present day. Suddenly, globalisation is no longer seen as the panacaea it was 25-30 years ago and migration, earlier regarded as a desirable social process that supported the cause of a global community, is now viewed with trepidation and fear. What
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