Let’s let today’s signal, on Kenya opening up visa free travel for fellow African nations at the same tome the UK & the EU are increasing visa fees and pre check requirements for travellers from even “friendly” nations, be an excuse to talk about how morally and ethically visas - that usually charge poor nations’ residents more than rich ones, are both internationally regressive - and honestly, no more morally superior than bank redlining or domestic “passbook” laws in that they use nationality as a proxy to discriminate againt class and race.
I’m lucky to have a second passport - thanks to no more than an accident of my ancestors birth. I’m as much as risk to European (and Kenyan) fiscal and physical as any other African but tenuous ancestry proxy assumptions I’m treated first class when I travel while my countrymen are treated as criminals due to assumptions made about them by the colour of the pass book they carry.
What say you? Are physical visas regressive in a digitally connected world?
Ir are fears over outsiders “stealing” social (in)security safety nets real or backwards? (Given rich world population ageing patterns and lack of sustainability)?
Anyway.
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Argue with me in the comments.
Read more :
Freedom of movement : https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67254349.amp
Tax the poor : https://businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle/704229/uk-visas-are-about-to-get-a-lot-more-expensive-for-south-africans/
De globalisation : https://www.afar.com/magazine/us-citizens-will-need-a-visa-to-travel-to-europe?_amp=true
Freedom of movement