Are people who don’t know migrants more adverse to migration?

It is never about knowing or not. No matter where we live or which class we belong to, it is about our mindsets individually. Let me quote an example from our Pakistani society. We Pakistanis always yearn to emigrate to Europe, Canada and America for the betterment of our economic conditions. We hope that when we go to other countries their natives should be embracing us with dignity.

But at the same time, most of us loathe Afghan refugees. They are accused of bringing extremism, terrorism and drug addiction to Pakistan. They are given all the rights equal to a Pakistani citizen i.e. education, health, living and working in Pakistan. But still they are always suspected, by some of the Pakistanis, to be criminals, smugglers and kidnappers. Perhaps this is the reason that even after doing so much for Afghanistan, Pakistan couldn’t make a soft-corner in Afghans’ hearts.

Then there are some people in Pakistan wo always respected those refugees and understood their sufferings and their homelessness. It has been always a burning question in Pakistan whether they should have let these Afghans in or not.

To conclude I can say that it is not about the knowledge but about the thoughts that let us determine about migration.