Lesson 10 Global Migration

• refers to people moving from one are to another within one country

  Internal Migration
• the people cross borders of one country to another.

  International Migration
• these are people who move permanently to another country

  Immigrants
• also known as asylum – seekers

  Refugees
• the no. of people currently living outside the countries of their birth. 90% of the, moved for economic reasons while the remaining 10% were refugees and asylum-seekers


  247 Million
• The top three regions of origin are Latin America (18% of global total), followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia (16%), and the Middle East and North Africa (14%).
• On a per country basis, India, Mexico, and China are leading, with the Philippines, together with Afghanistan, only ranking 6th in the world.
• These are part of the top 10 main destination of migrants.

  West and the Middle East, with the United States.
• What percent of global migrants moved from the developing countries to the developed zones of the world and contribute from 40% to 80% of their labor force

  50%
• This is the first – generation immigrants constitute 13 percent of the population in Western Europe, 15% in North America, 48% in the GCC countries.
• These has led to a debate in destination countries over the issue of whether migrants are assets or liabilities to national development.

  migrant influx
• They argue that governments must control legal immigration and put a stop to illegal entry of foreigners.

  Anti-immigrant groups and nationalists
• They reverse the existing pro – immigration and refugee sympathetic policies of their states.

  President Donald Trump & UK Prime Minister Theresa May
• He attempted to ban travel into the US of people from Majority-Muslim countries, even those with proper documentation.

  Donald Trump
• Based on this survey in 2011, they concluded that “likelihood and magnitude of adverse labor market effects for native from immigration are substantially weaker that often perceived.”

  Harvard Business School
• The fiscal impact of immigration on social welfare was noted to be “very small.”
• This international institution predicted that the flow of refugees feeling the war in Syria and Iraq would actually grow Europe’s GDP, albeit “modestly”.

  International Monetary Fund
• The inflow of refugees from the Middle East in this country has not affected social welfare programs, and had very little impact on wages and employment.

  Germany
• Ninety (90) percent of the value (over billions) generated by migrant workers remains in their host countries. In 2014, India held the highest recorded remittance (70 billion USD), followed by China (62 billion), the Philippines (28 billion USD), and Mexico (25 billion USD).
• This make significant contributions to the development of small – and medium term industries that help generate jobs.

  Remittances
• This change the economic and social standing of migrants, as shown by new or renovated homes and their relatives’ access to new consumer goods.

  Remittances
• According to Asian Development Bank, in this country, remittances “do not have a significant influence on other key items of consumption or investment such as spending on education and health care.”

  Philippines
• This may help in lifting “households out of poverty…but not in rebalancing growth, especially in the long run.”

  Remittances
• This refers as the global migration is “siphoning… qualified personnel, removing dynamic workers.

  Brain-Drain
• The government are aware of brain-drain, but have no choice but to continue but to continue promoting migrant work as part of state policy because of the remittances’ impact on GDP.
• Listed by The US Federal Bureau as the 3rd largest criminal activity worldwide.

  human trafficking
• International Labor Organization (ILO) identified 21 million men, women, and children as victims of “forced labor,” (3 out of 1000 people worldwide)
• This has been very profitable, earning syndicates, smugglers, and corrupts state officials’ profits of as high as 150 Billion USD a year in 2014.

  Human trafficking
• Governments, the private sector, and civil society groups have worked together to combat human trafficking, yet the results remain uneven.
• The final issues relate to how migrants interact with their new home countries.
• This assimilate immigrants and their children by granting them citizenship and the rights that go with it.

  Democratic states
• Migrants unwittingly reinforce the tension by “keeping among themselves.”
• What are the Five (5) types of International Migrants?

  Immigrants, workers who stay in a country for fixed period, Illegal Immigrants, Migrants whose families have petitioned them to move to the destination country, and Refugees.
• There is nothing moral or immoral about moving from one country to another.
• Human beings has always been like this.

  Migratory
• What is the Migrant's contribution, and the percentage of GDP in USA?

  $2Trillion(11 percent)
• What is the Migrant's contribution, and the percentage of GDP in Germany?

  $550B(17%)
• What is the Migrant's contribution, and the percentage of GDP in United Kingdom?

  $390B(14%)
• What is the Migrant's contribution, and the percentage of GDP in Australia?

  $330b (25%)
• What is the Migrant's contribution, and the percentage of GDP in Canada?

  $320B (21%)