SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Children and Families of the Government of the Canary Islands, Candelaria Delgado, has called this Wednesday to reflect in a “joint and co-responsible manner” on the migration processes during the institutional event on the occasion of ‘Canary Day of Migrations’.
“We need a more integrated and comprehensive perspective. The Canary Islands constitute an essential part of the southern border of the European Union and, therefore, must have the involvement of the rest of the regions of the Union to address the management of mobility in a co-responsible manner. that does not stop and whose destiny is Europe,” said the counselor.
Along these lines, he insisted that the archipelago “has become one of the main nodes of international migration in recent decades, something that undoubtedly enriches, but also points to enormously complex challenges.”
He also pointed out that the Archipelago has received more than 175,000 people since 1994, the date on which “reliable information” began to be available about these voyages. “However, we do not know how many people have been left behind,” he said.
This, he said, “should make us reflect collectively on the enormous dimension and scope of migratory processes throughout history, but also on the importance of facing in a much more adequate way the management of migrations and their effects and implications.”
In his speech, Delgado remembered the people who migrate, “especially the most vulnerable” and emphasized the need to jointly demand greater attention towards the proper management of migrations.
“To achieve this, we must demand the development of more structural actions, to confront, in a particular way, the causes that drive millions of people around the world to enter into an experience of suffering that ends in many cases with death,” Indian.
The establishment of the ‘Canary Migration Day’ was approved in July 2022 in the Parliament of the Canary Islands where it was agreed to officially celebrate this day on September 10 of each year in order to highlight “the positive values of migrations, promoting the values of welcome, empathy, solidarity and cooperation”, includes a note from the Ministry.
At the institutional event held at the headquarters of the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands, the draft of the ‘Canary Plan for Immigration and Intercultural Coexistence’ and the video ‘I am from the world and I live in the Canary Islands’ were also presented, with the intervention of some of the people participants.
