🤝Imagine... Young Pacific Voices Reshaping Their Futures🤝
💡 Imagined Endstate:
Pacific young people thriving where they are, with meaningful jobs, fair wages, and safe migration options, rather than being forced to leave home because of lack of opportunity.
📚 Source:
Talanoa ’O Tonga. (2025, September 18). Pacific Youth demand urgent action on migration and employment at Global Forum. Link.
💥 What’s the Big Deal:
At the XV Global Forum on Migration and Development, Pacific youth delivered a clear message: our region cannot wait. They demanded urgent action to strengthen job security, raise the minimum wage 💸, and stop holding back emerging generations, insisting that opportunities must exist at home, not just abroad. For many young Pacific Islanders, migration 🛫 is not always a choice, it’s an economic necessity. Without decent local employment and pathways to prosperity, talent keeps leaving the islands and communities become depleted.
This youth push links migration policy directly to employment policy, underlining how unfair work conditions and lack of home‑based opportunities force outflows of people, culture, and potential 🎒. The article puts forward a two‑part call: first, secure meaningful employment within Pacific home economies; second, ensure any migration is safe, dignified, and mutually beneficial. By elevating youth voices on this global stage, island nations assert that migration dynamics are not simply external, they are deeply local and structural.
For Pacific SIDS, where economies are vulnerable and populations small, this means building resilience at home: markets that retain youth 🌱, wages that reflect cost of living 💵, training that fits evolving industries, and migration frameworks that respect rights and futures. The urgency cannot be understated, these are not just employment matters, but issues of identity, equity, and regional vitality.
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