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Tuesday, 27 September 2016

On illegal immigration

Migration is on the minds of Egyptian columnists in the wake of last week’s tragedy. Former MP and Al Masry Al Youm columnist Amr El Shobaky says Egyptian migrants the reasons have less reason to head to Europe than do people from Iraq, Syria, and Libya, where the prospect of death at sea is no more daunting than that of being killed at home in an attack by Daesh.

El Watan’s Ali El Selmy writes that legislation alone will not put an end to unregulated migration, saying job creation and social justice are long-term solutions. The tragedy is a warning sign of a looming crisis, he says. Meanwhile, the same newspaper’s Mahmoud Khalil complains that while pop culture and films in the ‘50s and ‘60s denounced the idea of leaving behind friends and family in search for other opportunities overseas, immigration is a primary ambition of the masses today.

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