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Falling birth rates, brain drain: Why Saint Lucia is rethinking migration

19 May 2026
This content originally appeared on St. Lucia Times.
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Saint Lucia already has an Immigration Act, a Citizenship Act, and constitutional provisions governing people and movement. However, officials say that factors such as climate-related disasters, declining birth and fertility rates and shifting geopolitical tensions are raising new questions about the country’s demographic and economic future and how it manages migration.