Paper on migration issues seminar workshop on social and community development issues - 1990's and beyond, Wednesday 25th January, 1989

ABSTRACT

Large scale migration is acknowledged to be a natural reaction to harsh conditions of one kind or another in the home country, as against the attraction of better prospects in the destination country. Unemployment, under-employment, the lure of better employment opportunities, deteriorating social services-health, education, housing, deteriorating social environment - crime, drug abuse, vagrancy - these are some of the main causes cited as being behind the mass exodus of citizens of Trinidad and Tobago within recent years. Suggested solutions- i Incentives (financial and otherwise) for those in critical occupations to remain/return; ii Re-training; job enrichment strategies; iii Improved social services