GECCON 5&6

• Internal Migration


  People moving from places to places within one country
• International Migration


  People cross borders of one country to another
• Types of international migrants

  • Immigrants
  • Workers who stay in another country for a fixed period (at least 6 months in a year)
  • Illegal immigrants
  • Migrants petitioned by families to the destination country
  • Refugees
• Vagabonds


  On the move because they have to be as they are not faring well in their home countries
• Tourists


  On the move because they want to be and they can afford it
• Push factors


  Political persecution, economic depression, war, famine in the home country
• Pull factors


  Favorable immigration policy, labor shortage, similarity of language and culture
• Vagabonds are forced to flee their countries due to safety concerns
• Refugees seek to remain in the country to which they flee
• Asylum seekers migrate to find work
• Labor migration is a transnational process, which involves dialogue to both imagined and local communities
• Diasporization and globalization are closely interconnected and the expansion of the latter will lead to the increase in the former
• Migrants can be assets or liabilities to receiving countries
• Remittances change the economic and social standing of the migrants' recipients (family and country)
• Remittances do not have significant influence on other key items of consumption or investment such as spending on education and healthcare
• 52% of Filipinos who leave for work in the developed world have tertiary education, which is more than double the 23% of the overall population
• Migration issues and concerns

  • Human trafficking
  • "forced labor"
  • Integration (access to social services, language and cultural barriers)
• Global migration entails the globalization of people and is uneven