Our students read the text “Excerpts from the Foreword of: International Migration

and Development - Report of the Secretary-General”, issued by the United Nations.

They needed a little help to grasp the complete meaning of the text (help by the
teacher and online dictionaries), but it is clear now that they succeeded at it. Then,
working in pairs, they were ready to answer five questions that made them broaden
their views on migrations.

In our opinion, some very good and interesting conclusions can be drawn from their
answer. Namely:

- International migration can be profitable both for migrants and host countries

- Migrants from developing countries help to develop their native lands both by means
of direct monetary help and by transmitting technological advances and innovative
policies.

- Migrants not always move to developed countries, nor they only work in menial jobs

These are our students’ answers:

A. How does the text describe migration?

- It describes it like a very good thing for developing countries.

- Migration has been a courageous expression of the individual ´s will to overcome

adversity and to live a better life.

- In migration, all the people and countries win because it become in a lot of
development for all aspects.

- “Migration has been a courageus expression of the individual´s will to overcome

adversity and to live a better life.”
- “Migration has been a courageous expression of the individual’s will to overcome
adversity and to live a better life.”

- Migration is a courageous expression of the individual`s will to overcome adversity

and to live a better life.

- The text says that migration has been a courageous expression of the individual’s will
to overcome adversity and to live a better life.

- The text describe migrations as a courageous expression of the individual’s will to

overcome adversity and to live a better life.
- It describes it as a courageous expression of the individual and it isn’ t a zero-sum
game.
 B. Who offers a bigger help to developing countries? Migrants or
international aid? Copy the words from the text

- Migrants. “The funds that migrants send back to developing countries – at least $167
billion in 2005 alone”.

- To take just the most tangible example, the funds that migrants send back to
developing countries – at least $ 167 billion in 2005 alone – now dwarf all forms of
international aid combined.

- The migrants. "To take just the most tangible example, the funds that migration
send back to developing countries - at least $167 billion in 2005 alone - now dwarf
all forms of international aid combined."

- Migrants” The funds that migrants send back to developing countries- at least 167
billion in 2005 alone-now dwarf of international aid combined.
- Migrants. “To take just the most tangible example, the funds that migrants send back
to developing countries--at least $167 billion in 2005 alone—now dwarf all forms of
international aid combined.”

- The migrants because the funds that migrants send back to developing countries-at
least 167 billion dollars in 2005 done-now dwarf all forms of international.

- Migrants. “The funds that migrants send back to developing countries - at least $167
billion in 2005 alone - now dwarf all forms of international aid combined.”

- The migrants offers a bigger help to the developing countries, the funds that migrants
send back to developing countries now dwarf all forms of international aid combined.

- “Emigration has played a decisive role in reinvigorating their economies, as it has the
eventual return of many os their citizens.” “Now dwarf all forms of international aid
combined. “

C. Migrants always move from developing to developed countries.

True or false? Copy the words from the text. 

- False. “Nearly 200 million migrants have moved from one developing country to
another”.

- False. No longer do the vast majority settle in just a small number of developed
countries about a third of the world´s nearly 200 million migrants have moved from
one developing country to another ,while an equal proportion have gone from the
developing to the developed world.
- False. "about a third of the world's nearly 200 million migrants have moved from
one developing country to another, while an equal proportion have gone from the
developing to the developed world."
- False. “About a third of the world´s nearly 200 million migrants have moved from one
developing to another.”
- False. “No longer do the vast majority one developing country to another, while an
equal proportion have gone from the developing to the developed world.”

- False, because a third of the world´s nearly 200 million migrants have moved to from
a developing country to another, the rest move to from a developing to a developed
country.

- False. “About a third of the world’s nearly 200 million migrants have moved from one
developing country to another, while an equal proportion have gone from the
developing to the developed world.

- The sentence is false because a third of the third of the world’s nearly 200 million
migrants have move from a developing country to another.

- False. “200 millions migrants have moved from one developing country to another”.

D. Migrants always carry out manual jobs. True or false? 

- False. “Nor are migrants engaged only in menial actions”.

- False. Nor are migrants engaged only in menial activities.

- False. Nearly half the increase in the number of international migrants aged 25 or
over in OECD countries during the 19905 was made up of highly skilled people.
- False “Nor are migrants engaged only menial jobs.”
- False. “Nor are migrants engaged only in menial activities. Nearly half the increase in
the number of international migrants aged 25 or over in OECD countries during the
1990s was made up of highly skilled people.

- False, because not are migrants engaged only in menial activities.

- False. “Nor are migrants engaged only in menial activities.”

- This sentence is false because the tex says: “Nearly half the increase in the number of
international migrants aged 25 or over on OECD countries during the 1990s was made
up of highly skilled people”
- False. “Nor are migrants engaged only in menial jobs.”
 E. How do migrants help the technological and institutional
development of their national country?  

- Migrants can help to improve technological and institutional development in their

native countries with their own potential, the things they’ve learned in other
countries…
- Migrants can maintain transnational lives, and remittances can dramatically help local
economies. At the same time , innovations in policymaking are allowing us to manage
international migration in new ways- China and the Republic of Korea attract
expatriate researchers back home with state-of-the-art science parks.
- They inspire new ways of thinking, both socially and politically. They also teach
new things they can do like agriculture skills.
- “They inspire new ways of thinking, both socially and politically”
- Migrants that have come from developing countries can learn new skills and then
come back to their native countries or the migrants can send funds to their family in a
developing country

- Remittances can dramatically help their local economies.

- “The potential for migrants to help transform their native countries is capturing the
imagination of national and local authorities, international institutions, and the private
sector.”

- They help the technological and institutional development of their native countries
because the migrants are nowadays an dynamic human link between cultures
economies and societies. 

- Innovation and policymaking are allowing us to manage international migration in

new ways.
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