CBC | The backlash against migration in the 2010s and bold ideas for the future
"What happened in the last decade is that people have realized that migration was an important human phenomenon and that it would not stop. Migration is not a tap that you can turn on and turn off. Migration is something that happens, that has always happened and that will continue to happen. Migration is a normal reaction to political, social, economic stress," François Crépeau told The Sunday Edition's host Michael Enright.
Crépeau served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Migrants from 2011 to 2017 — six crucial years in the history of this decade. He is also the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law at McGill University, as well as the Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.
