Sentence examples for cause of migration from inspiring English sources
According to the IPCC there is as yet no proof that climate change is the only cause of migration from small Pacific islands.
The $500 million in aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras was originally designed to address the root cause of migration — violence, lack of jobs and poverty.
Grinding poverty has long been a cause of migration and was the impetus again after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Robert Dobias, climate change project chief at the Asian Development Bank, said that at present climate change is still a relatively small cause of migration, as economic causes loom largest and as environmental disasters happen independently of global warming.
"President Bush himself has expressed to us that he would really be an ally in the cause of migration, that we would work together to return the issue to the highest priority".
But it highlights the biggest cause of migration now: a big pool of unemployed, underpaid or under-appreciated people for whom going abroad makes a lot of sense.If pay and prospects in a Latvian village are dismal, it is probably better to pick mushrooms in Ireland (a popular choice), at least for a while.
"Disputes about land and garden produce figure prominently in tradition as the particular cause of migrations from [central East Polynesia] to the outlying archipelagos," the study authors wrote.
Since 2015, "addressing the root causes of migration" has also been a key theme of official EU strategy.
But Oxfam said the emphasis on addressing the root causes of migration risks a shift from aid to self-interest.
