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AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 51.

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Because, such is my dear mother's personality and mood tendency, that she will only too freely pronounce what is 'wrong', but has to have what is 'right' and 'well', the positives, extracted from her. But hayho; just as how my dear mother interprets the world as a challenge.  And makes her adjustment to the consequences of her current circumstances a continuing challenge for those whose care for and interact with her.  So, also, does she sometimes take hold of the opportunities she is present with.  Life and living, it seems to me, is about taking a journey from our birth to our death.  We cannot teach anybody about birth and death, in a way in which they are likely to benefit from it.  We cannot teach anybody how to be born well, because we are already born.   And, at the point of birth, we are presumed not to have or be capable of having any knowledge, except the instinctive knowledge which is coded into our genetic infrastructur

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON THE CHALLENGE OF HUMAN MIGRATION. PART 4.

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Unless you are  'a climate change denier' , it is not too difficult to comprehend how, through acute and chronic economic destitution, or climatic disaster.   Such as their habit becoming uninhabitable, people could and have become  'economic and/or climatic refugees.'  Yes, if we are to become able and competent at managing the challenges of human migration.   Then we must continue to think out of the constraints of  'my piece of land' ,  'my country' ,  'my region' , as difficult as this is.  If the world, the Planet Earth, is, as is becoming clearer within so short a period of time of our current human evolutionary history.   Is to ward off the risk of continuing to be an ecosystem in serious danger of not being able to sustain life.  Then it is vital that we perceive of and seek to address the world's, our human problems, in the context of the, 'collective our', and move away from the 'our

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON THE CHALLENGE OF HUMAN MIGRATION. PART 3.

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But to what extent that will happen, is debatable. As we can see, for example, from the threatened dissolution of the European Union, with member countries resisting the imposition of free movement of EU citizens between their borders.  And the EU struggling to come up with and implement a comprehensive policy to appropriately respond to continuing pressure it is under, from non-European migrants and refugees.  Each country, when it sees or perceives its economy and socio-political status threatened by non-national  'outsiders' , wants to control the gates through which the migrants and refugees are or could enter it.  Probably not surprisingly, they also want to be in charge of defining who is a migrant and who is a refugee and who is an economic migrant. All of which, at different times, can be one and the same thing. For example, although it is common practice to ascribe the label of refugee to people facing political repression or persecution or both,

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON THE CHALLENGE OF HUMAN MIGRATION. PART 2.

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What is it that might impel them to want to migrate? The answer is both complicated and simple.  The simple answer could be that they believe, might even be certain that they will or could 'have a better life' in the country they wish or are migrating to.  The complicated answer would include an appraisal of the 'push and pull factors' which are driving their migration.  The avoidance and attraction factors in their home environment and those of their desired or intended destination.  At any given time, the secondary drivers of people migrating can be different, but the core factor, survival or the desire to have a better life, is likely to remain constant.  It is like that most people, depending on their ability to maintain a life which is worthy of being described as better than mere survival, drudgery and serfdom.   Will have thought of moving to somewhere where they could realise such a life.  Without the enforcement of immigration and bord