The Millennial Bloggers Dialogue on International Migration
The changes in immigration are dramatically impacting our global communities, which are becoming more diverse and multicultural. As people move more freely across borders and continents, local communities are changing. For example, migration contributes to greater diversity in our schools and our workplaces. A recent report by the OECD recommends that teachers and schools be provided with additional training and resources to be able to specifically tackle the challenges faced. Many believe race had a lot to do with the Brexit outcome.
The 15 Millennial Bloggers are based all over the world. They are innovators in entrepreneurship, journalism, education, entertainment, and academic scholarship. This month, CMRubinWorld asked these young professionals to share their perspectives on the challenges faced in Migration.
It is “the voices of the refugees and migrants themselves that are missing,” notes Millennial Blogger Bonnie Chiu, who believes that story-telling is the most powerful tool we have to build bridges – “If we understand the struggles that they go through, we will change the way we act.” Kamna Kathuri discusses the dangers of continuing “the practices that were created in the eighteenth century for largely homogenous, single-ethnicity schools… Systems must change. Mind-sets must readjust. Children will learn.”
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The Millennial Bloggers is a monthly series where youth voices from across the globe offer experienced yet unique takes on today’s most important topics. The Millennial Bloggers are Alusine Barrie, Sophie Hemery, James Kernochan, Kamna Kathuria, Jacob Deleon Navarrete, Reetta Heiskanen, Shay Wright, Isadora Baum, Aw Cheng Wei, Francisco Hernandez, Erin Farley, Dominique Alyssa Dryding, Harry Glass, Harmony Siganporia and Bonnie Chiu. CMRubinWorld utilizes the platform to propagate voices of the most indispensable people of society, our youth.
KJ