Migration Policy in the Context of Sustainable Development NATALIIA TKACHOVA 1 , TAISIIA KRUSHELNYTSKA 2 , OKSANA MARCHENKO 3 , NATALIYA KUZNETSOVA 4 1 Department of Information and Communicative Technologies of Business Education, National Aviation University, Kyiv, UKRAINE 2 Departament of Economics and Regional Economic Policy, Dnipropetrovsk Regional Institute for Public Administration, National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, UKRAINE 3 Department of Economics and Hotel and Restaurant Business Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University, UKRAINE 4 Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Marketing, Cherkasy State Business College, UKRAINE Abstract: - The issues of sustainable development are related to the need in order to reduce poverty, inequality, insecurity, inclusion of immigrants in the system of education and health care, which contradicts the effective long-term solution of the global goals of EU migration policy. The aim of the research is to study the effectiveness of migration policy in the context of sustainable development on the example of EU countries in order to formulate proposals for overcoming the problems of inequality and poverty as priority goals. The results of the research complement the theory of the new economics of labour migration, considering this concept as a way to maximize income and reduce the risk of revenue through education, higher wages and a way to get better health and education services, access to developed infrastructure. However, the heterogeneity of the effects of migration is also reflected in the inability to obtain health services and access to the education system due to the high cost. All this exacerbates the problems of inequality and poverty due to the imbalance of both income and the cost of social services in different EU countries. It has been determined that the policy of integration of immigrants does not ensure the achievement of the goal of inclusive and equitable social- economic welfare. Inequality, in particular, gender one remains the main problem of sustainable development through illegal employment and different levels of remuneration. It has been proved that training should be considered in the context of sustainable development as providing access to the education system and programs. Despite the growing participation in educational programs and training of immigrants, the problems of inequality and poverty remain a priority for ensuring sustainable development. Key-Words: - Migration Policy, Sustainable Development and Migration, Migration Flows, Migration Management Strategies Received: January 2, 2021. Revised: February 24, 2021. Accepted: March 22, 2021. Published: April 2, 2021. 1 Introduction Over the last twenty years, migration policy has been viewed in the context of sustainable development for a number of reasons. Political approaches to public management of migration flows have begun to align with sustainable development strategies in order to ensure national coordination and international cooperation. The integration of migrants into the labour market and the control of migration flows have been major obstacles to the unification of political approaches. Along with this, there is the problem of sustainable development related to overcoming poverty, inequality [1], lack of security, which contradicts the effective long-term solution of the global goals of EU migration policy [2]. “The intertwined nature of environmental, ethnic, and poverty problems not only bears negatively upon the “alleviation of poverty conducing to the accruement of wealth” of the poverty-stricken population, but also hinders the rehabilitation of the environment” [3]. Thus, there is a conflict between the interests and goals of migration policy and sustainable development policy. On the one hand, highly qualified migrants contribute to development in high-income countries; they act as channels for technology transfer through knowledge, investment [4]. On the other hand, low-skilled migrants cause a WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on BUSINESS and ECONOMICS DOI: 10.37394/23207.2021.18.61 Nataliia Tkachova, Taisiia Krushelnytska, Oksana Marchenko, Nataliya Kuznetsova E-ISSN: 2224-2899 619 Volume 18, 2021