Migration today is practically an expression of the violation of the primary human right to live in one's own country. The origin of such a violation is found in wars, internal conflicts, the system of government, unequal distribution of economic resources, incoherent agricultural policy, irrational industrialization, and widespread corruption. These situations are to be corrected through the promotion of balanced economic development, progressively overcoming social inequalities, scrupulous respect for the human person and the proper functioning of democratic structures.

It is necessary to carry out urgent corrective measures to the present economic and financial system, dominated and manipulated by the industrialized countries. These very same countries are presently threatening to annul even the right to emigrate, which has always been considered an alternative to the impossibility of living in one's own country.

Source: Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of
Migrants and Itinerant People