UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND LEGAL STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES
FIRST SEMESTER, 2025
CMS 107: COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS
GROUP ASSIGNMENT
SUBMISSION DATE: WEDNESDAY, 26TH MARCH, 2025
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. The work should be done on neat foolscap sheets.
2. Names and registration numbers of only those who will actively participate in
doing the work should be written at the front page of the sheet.
3. For avoidance of doubt, you are to do both outline and summary in the same
foolscap sheet.
4. Leaders of each group must ensure members actively participate in doing the work.
5. The assignment will be collected in class.
Read the following passage carefully, and write an outline and summarise it between 100 and
120 words
The phenomenon of migration is increasingly maintaining its place on the agenda day-by-
day. Migration is the movement of people in order to live in a place other than where they
are. Identifications regarding the nature and causes of migration are discussed.
First, migration can take place within or outside he borders of the country, singularly
or in mass. Thus, migration is defined differently as internal migration within the borders of
the country (national) or migration from abroad to that country or from that country to
another country (international). Second, distinctions are created between regular and irregular
migration. Regular migration is defined as the short-term or long-term stay of individuals in
any country or in different regions of their own country, within the framework of legal
permissions. Irregular migration is illegally entering a country, staying in a country illegally
or not leaving the country despite entering legally, in the following period despite the expiry
of the legal period.
Political reasons constitute a large part of the migration movements occurring on a
global scale. Factors such as human rights violations due to political reasons, persecution,
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restriction of personal freedoms, inequalities, lack of judicial independence, and military
coups constitute the main reasons for migration movements. Unfortunately, the most
dominant actor of political reasons is wars. Wars that cause great migration movements are
also one of the main reasons for forced migration.
A wide range of social factors create migration. Many reasons such as people’s desire
to be with their families or relatives who have migrated before, and the fact that the target
country speaks the same language can force people to migrate. Also, the characteristics that
they feel close to them culturally and socially, and the desire to get a better education and
freedom of belief can be examined under this heading. High fertility rates and the incidence
of infectious diseases can also cause migration. Migration may be a choice for people with a
high population living together in relatively small houses and sharing limited space with
many siblings and family members.
Natural factors have created reasons for migration throughout history, but a
significant increase has been observed in the last 20 years. In particular, this increase has an
impact on internal migration. Changing climatic conditions caused by global warming have a
great impact on natural factors. We have seen floods, fires, droughts, earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions, landslides, Tsunami, and similar disasters of a type and the extent that mankind has
not encountered before.
Migration continues to create human movements of unavoidable magnitude.
International cooperation on migration is of great importance. There is a need for dynamic
policies in terms of receiving and sending migrants from and to other countries. A good
understanding of the reasons that trigger migration is very important in terms of solving the
problem at its source. The best solution to a problem is possible by eliminating its causes.
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