Global Network:

Globalization and Migration

•Change is inevitably in every aspect of
life, both personal and social.
•Such change is experienced by people in
various ways and in different magnitudes
and consequences.
•The world today is significantly
experiencing these changes in the field of
environment, culture, politics and
economics.
•Globalization is the most powerful
force for change in the world today
affecting all societies in the planet.
•Globalization is a situation wherein
the world is becoming increasingly
interconnected. As a consequence,
The world is imagined as one global
village
•Globalization eliminates spatial
barriers.
•An event that is happening in one
part of the globe can be experienced
by the rest of the world through the
networked technologies of the
media.
•It entails the movement of capital, free
flow of goods and services, the increased
mobility of individuals, and the expansions
of multinational corporations and
transnational organizations.
•Globalization has integrated the product
and financial markets of economies
around the world through the driving forces
of trade and capital flows across borders.
•One of the goals of
globalization is for the world to
become more interdependent.
People and countries of the world
are closely woven together
especially in the economic
aspect.
•It aims to standardized income
distribution through its economic
integration schemes. It show that
globalization have a advantages
and disadvantages.
•Migration is said to be as old as human
civilization, and there is clear proof that
globalization is inextricably related to it.

"According to estimates, more or less 20%

of the labor force in the Philippines want
to leave the country in search for a job
abroad. Some of them become victims of
illegal recruitment and human trafficking"
•National Geographic defines human
migration as the movement of people
from one territory to another for the
purposes of taking up either as
permanent or temporary residence.
Movement can be considered as
voluntary or involuntary, long term or short
term.
Why do people Migrate?

•People migrate for various reasons, The

reasons may fall under four categories:
environmental, political, cultural and
economic. it categorized as "push" and
"pull".
•Push Factors - are those that motivate
people to move from one place to
another because of difficulty.

•Pull Factors - those that motivate people

to move from their place to another
place because of some desires.
 Types of Migration:

•Internal Migration. look for new residence

within their own country or state
•External Migration. moving in a different
country or state
•Forced migration. when the states force
the people to migrate for a reason.
•Emigration. leaving from one
country to another

•Immigration. moving into a new

country
•"Migration, forced or otherwise, will
undoubtedly be one of the most
significant consequences of
environmental degradation and
climate change in decades to
come."
 Migration, Globalization and
Climate Change
• Natural calamities like earthquakes, tsunamis,
typhoons and floods have brought varying
degrees of devastation around the world.
The global consciousness that climate
change may represent one of the most
significant threats of the near future has
stimulated humanity's collective interest in
disaster.
•Achim Steiner, Director General of the
international Union for Conservation of
Nature, believes that migration, both
forces and voluntary, will be the most
significant consequences of climate
change and environmental
degradation.
•In the past 10 years alone, Asia had
been hit by strong earthquakes,
tsunamis, and typhoons that resulted
to the loss of thousands of lives and
left tens of thousands homeless and
in anguish.
•Global ecological and
environmental movements have
observed that that climate
refugees are the people who
migrate because of disaster and
not by war or any conflict on their
country.