National Security Impact of Immigration Policy
extended definition of the term ‘security’ to incorporate economics has garnered more focus on migration’s economic challenges; consequently, the phenomenon is being deemed to be a security challenge. Economic migrants and asylum seekers/ refugees both potentially jeopardize a nation’s economic security. Immigration of workers is believed to jeopardize origin as well as destination nations’ economic security. This claim supports the idea that emigration of well- educated, qualified and skilled individuals from the Southern unindustrialized nations to the Northern industrialized ones leads to “brain drain” within the former and unwelcome economic… Continue Reading...
