Approximately 315,000 years ago, a life form known as Homo sapiens came out, alongside other species that belong to the Homo genus. These early humans, who are the ancestors of modern humans, competed with other Homo species and, against all odds, became the living Homo species on Earth. Over time, Homo sapiens began to form groups based on cultural, religious, or racial differences. Weaker groups were often treated unfairly by the higher class of society.
As time passed, humanity advanced; we developed more sophisticated technologies, such as weapons, which further divided civilization into countries. This division introduced additional factors like economic and national differences. Over the centuries, countries adapted to their geographical environments, shaping their cultures accordingly. Eventually, it had its influence on regions beyond their borders.
However, these cultural, economic, and national divides have also affected migration rates. Differences in economic opportunities, political stability, or quality of a safe life between regions have often led to large numbers of human migrations. Today, more than 250 million people live outside their homeland.
There are many ways of migration, but the most common examples are economic migrants and refugees. In 1951, refugees were defined as “a person who, owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his origin and is unable or is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.” This means these people are not able to fit into their own society and do not feel safe being in this place, so they need to change their habitat. This assumption can’t be made for all refugees, as some of these people leave their homes because of volcanic eruptions, floods, or other natural disasters.
Refugees have health care and education possibilities provided to them by the government. Also, there are asylum seekers, who are the people waiting to leave their country but have not been allowed to. Considering that one of the popular reasons for migration is conflict and violence inside a city, these people are not living in a fair environment.
Migration is a kind of economic investment between countries. The giver country makes sure that the people who are going are qualified in terms of economic incomes, values, and security in exchange for money. Sometimes, migrants can be a threat to other countries, judged by their religion and race.
In some countries, locals take migrants as a waste of space and claim they can fill up the job opportunities for other unemployed locals, which is a reasonable argument. But the fact that most of the migrants are working as hard labor workers with low salaries is not fair.
In conclusion, people should not be treated differently just because they don’t belong to a certain group, because we all came from the same species, who once fought all together.