Opening a three-day conference held under the theme of ‘People on the Move’ in Dubai on Tuesday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) chief spoke out against populism, stressing the need for “a coherent and robust approach to migration … that is based in fact, not fiction”.
“If we want to succeed in having a more humane and better world, we should resist the temptation of negative narratives that some want to spread about migration,” Mr Vitorino said, before going on to declare that the surge of people was set to grow and accelerate as a result of global inequality and so-called climate change.
Speaking to local media at the Dubai conference, the spokesman for the IOM director general’s office, Leonard Doyle, lashed out against resistance to mass migration as based on falsehoods, while claiming that a failure to properly “integrate” immigrants would result in them carrying out terror attacks on host populations.
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