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3 Migration
Broad types of migration

Migration

Internal External Temporary Permanent

Emigration Immigration annual seasonal daily

Migration between Rural and Urban areas

Migration

Rural to Rural to Urban to Urban to

urban rural urban rural
Other forms of migration

Migration

Primitive Forced Free Illegal

Why people migrate

Push factors

Pull factors
 Lack
of jobs
Political
freedom War

Push
Religious
factors Scarcity of
food and
toleranc essentials
e

Lack of
Natural
available calamities
land
 Job
opportunities

Family Education
Connections

Pull
Factors

Conducive Medical
Environment
Care

Attraction
of wealth
Impact of Migration
Positive impacts
on Destination
country

Technical and Cultural

Cheap labour
skilled labour diversity
 Positive impacts on
home country

The remittance(money
The scope for employment Migrants returning home sent home by
increases for those left bring back knowledge, skills migrants)indirectly helps
behind and new ideas the government of the
home country too.

By starting their own

businesses they also
provide job opportunities to
the local people
 Negative impacts
on the destination
countries

Local traditions
Job loss for the Social and civic Racism and
and cultures are
local people pressures develop discrimination
greatly affected
 Negative impacts on
the migrant’s home
country

Affects Economic Deep psychological

Loss of skilled labour growth and scars on the children
development and the elderly people
 Brain Drain

Bain drain is a term that refers to a

situation when highly qualifies and
trained people leave their country It is also known as
to work and settle permanently in human capital
another country that offers them flight
better job opportunities and
lifestyle
Causes of Brain Drain
• Economic factors such as the inability
Push to find suitably paying jobs in one’s
Factors own country
• poverty etc

• Higher income and more comfortable

Pull Factors lifestyle in the new country
• better economic prospects etc
Impacts of Brain Drain
Better employment opportunities for educated The migrant’s country will prosper as more
and skilled workers that may not be available in money (foreign exchange) will enter the country
their owncountry

Positive Impacts

There will be greater technology transfer,

Migrants returning ome will invest in heir own greater investments and capital brought back by
businesses and thereby boost development and the diaspora(groups of people who have moved
employment in the country from their own countries and settled abroad)
returning home.
 Negative Impacts

The reduction of qualified

A net decrease in the
and technical people in the Remittances may taper off
country of people with
country will impact the after some time as prices
professional and
development and growth may rise
technological qualifications
of the nation

With migrants returning

Government and private
Reduced quality of home with plenty of
scholarships to study
essential services of health money, vast disparity can
abroad will cause drainage
and education in develop between the
of talent and skills in the
themigrant’s home country incomes of the locals and
country
the migrants
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