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    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. The IPU is one of the ways through which parliament engages in diplomacy; something called Parliamentary diplomacy that people do not take seriously. We believe that diplomacy is only when a Cabinet Secretary and other state officials engage with foreign nations. It needs to be said that Parliament also carries out its diplomacy through organisations like the IPU, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and other different parliamentary groupings that this Parliament has subscribed to. When this Motion was moved, I was not sure whether we would talk about migration or immigration, but because this is a kind of dissection of English that lands me in trouble, I will migration and immigration as being close. However, strictly speaking, migration is temporary movement of persons from one country to another, necessitated by natural disasters like drought, famine or war. They get back to their home countries at some point, whereas immigration tends to be permanent. We are all products of immigration and many countries are products of human migration. For example, it is difficult to say who the indigenous people are in Homa Bay County. Perhaps, it was the Maasai or the group that we called the Lang’o, who today we call the Nandi, but definitely, it is not the group we call the Luo or the Abasuba that inhabit those areas. We moved from all corners of Africa. Some people came from Uganda, others from Tanganyika, Sudan and Congo. So, migration and immigration has been a human activity for a long period of time. Many communities in this country, in their folklores and historical stories, talk about their ancestors from a migratory perspective; how people left Sudan, the Congo and Egypt to get to where they are today. This is something that has been going on with human beings for a long time as it has been going on even with animals for a long time. Many modern nation states, as I said earlier, are products of migration and immigration. In the United States of America (USA) it is easy to forget that there were indigenous people. We ended up calling them Red Indians, but those were the original inhabitants of the land that we now call the USA. The USA is a melting pot of cultures as a result of migration and immigration. You will find the Irish, Germans, British and people from all over the world there. You will even find Africans who went to the USA, not out of choice but because they were carted in slave ships and had no option but to labour in the USA as slaves. It is a good thing that issues of slavery were dealt with in that country in the 1960s and 1970s. If you go to Canada, it is said that someone discovered Canada, yet there were indigenous people in Canada. It is said that somebody discovered Australia, yet there were the Aborigines in Australia who today live on the fringes of society. In fact, it is said that in Australia, the Aborigines live in near third world conditions while the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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