GLOBAL

MIGRATION
What is Global Migration?
 Global Migration a situation in which people go to live in foreign countries,
especially in order to find work. However, the reason why people migrate
differ depending on an individual’s situation.
How people migrate depends greatly on its nation’s current immigration laws
and the safety of the route itself.
While some people are able to travel by airplane or train, others do not have
the same luxury.
Emigrants, when a person freely chooses to move to another place, or as a
reprieve from situations of injustice and war.
Transportation is one of the examples of how migration can take
drastically different forms.
Four Types of Migration

Internal Migration is where they only migrate

within the country. They can move to other
towns or cities but not abroad. While
International Migration Is outside the
country. Emigration is existing from one
country to another country. While
Immigration is entering the country
There are Three Migrant categories such as:
1. Elite Migrants where professional are moving out of
the country. They can be lawyers, businessmen, doctors
and etc.;
2. Commoner Migrants are the people who seek for the
better opportunities abroad such as OFW.
3. Refugee Migrants are the people who have no
choice but to leave their country or hometown
because of natural disasters or ethno-political
conflicts.
Migration has advantages and disadvantages.
There are some Advantage in the country that
they left, these are the remittance, decrease pressure
on jobs and resources and they can acquire new
skills Moreover, these are the advantages to the
country that they move in a richer and more diverse
culture, reduce labor shortage, and also migrants are
more prepared to take on low paid and low skill
jobs. However there are also disadvantages.
 The Disadvantages in the country they left are
it reduces the size of the country’s potential
workforce and brain drain or lack of professional
workers such as doctors, lawyers and nurses. The
disadvantages to the country that they move in are
that it increases the cost of services such as
healthcare and education, overcrowding and
religion and culture conflicts because of diversity
there could be racist.
Why Do People Move?
Global migration can be understood as a cause and effect relationship,
through the causes are just numerous as their effects. People move
across international borders for a variety of reasons, including:
Safety
Natural Disaster
Political Conflict
Education
Family
Career
Economic betterment
The Push and Pull Factor
It is a factors in the destination country that attract
people to a new place largely because of the
opportunities presented in the new location were not
available to them previously.
Example, a family moving from a country with
minimal job opportunities for a successful career.
The beneficial elements that the new country presents
encourage people to migrate there in order to seek a
better life of their families.
A push factor refer to conditions which force
people to leave their homes.
A person who would typically move because of
distress(safety, natural disaster or political
conflict).
Places the experience drought and famine, was
conflicts, and/or high unemployment would
contribute to the push factors that trigger for that
country’s residents.
THE THREE WORLDS MODEL
First World
The term “First World” refers to so called
developed, capitalist, industrial countries,
roughly, a bloc of countries aligned with
the United States after word war II, with
more or less common political and
economic interests: North America,
Western Europe, Japan and Australia.
Second World
“Second World” refers to the former
communist-socialist, industrial states,
(formerly the Eastern bloc, the territory and
sphere of influence of the Union of Soviet
Socialists Republic) today: Russia, Eastern
Europe (e.g., Poland) and some of the Turk
States (e.g., Kazakhstan) as well as China.
Third World
“Third World” are all the other countries,
today often used to roughly describe the
developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin
America. The term Third World includes as
well capitalist (e.g., Venezuela) and
communist (e.g., North Korea) countries as
very rich (e.g., Saudi Arabia) and very poor
(e.g., Mali) countries.