In breaching the subject of migration, allow me to regale you with a tale as old as time, one that involves the ceaseless flow of humanity across borders and seas and the forging of new destinies. Millennia before the first scripts were pressed into clay tablets, our distant ancestors moved out from Africa throughout Europe and Asia. Their successful tribal survival embedded a migratory spirit into our endlessly diversifying DNA, which until today is shaping the civilizations that we are part of. Every era in known history is shaped by the story of migration as a search for a better life. This search itself, in all its forms, is a universal good that produces wellbeing in societies where migrants are able and allowed to adapt, integrate, find belonging, and add value to their destinations through their work and by sharing their cultural capital. A small but very important chapter in
