Global Migration

Amayna, Arabello, Basilio, Gabio, Marco, Ronquillo

At the end of this lesson, we should be
able to:

Identify reason for migration of people

Explain why states regulate migration

Discuss the effect of Global Migration

What is migration?

 It is the movement of a person or a group of

people, to settle in another place, often across
a political or administrative boundary.
Migration can be temporal or permanent, and
it may be voluntary or forced.
 Two types of Migration
International
Internal Migration Migration

 It refers to people  It refers to people

moving from one cross borders of one
area to another area country to another.
within a country
 5 groups of International
Migration
 Immigrants – move permanently to another country
 Workers who stay in another country for a fixed period
 Illegal migrant
 Migrants whose family have “petitioned” to move to the
destination country
 Refugees (asylum-seekers) –unable or unwilling to return
Did you know?
 Demographers estimate 247 million people currently living outside
the countries of their birth.
 90% - Economic Reason 10% - economics

Top 3 Regions of Origin Per Country Basis

1. Latin America (18%) India
2. Eastern Europe and Mexico
Central Asia China
3. Middle East and Philippines
North America Afghanistan
Migrant Contribution to
Destination Country in dollars
Country Contribution Percentage of GDP

United States 2 trillion 11 percent

Germany 550 billion 17 percent

United Kingdom 390 billion 14 percent

Australia 330 billion 25 percent

Canada 320 billion 21 percent

Benefits and detriments for the
sending countries
 Remittance- the money send back by the migrants workers
to their home country.

TOP THREE HIGHEST REMITTANCE OF 2014

 India (70billion dollars)
 China (62billion dollars)
 Philippines (28billion dollars)
Asian Development bank (ADB)

 Obeserves that the remittance of from workers migrant

like from the Philippines, “remittance help lifting
household from poverty … but not in rebalancing growth.
(they don’t invest more in education)
Brain drain

 Refers to “Siphoning … qualified personnel and

removing dynamic young workers.”
 They are knowledgeable people seek as migrant workers
in other country
 52% of Filipinos migrant are tertiary graduate
 Mostly lost their profession in moving to another country
Human Trafficking

 According to the United States Federal Bureau of

Investigation list as human trafficking as the third
criminal activity worldwide.
 Human Trafficking has been profitable earning
syndicates, smugglersprofits of as high as 150
billion a year in 2014.
Problem in human trafficking

ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL LABOR

ORGANIZATION
 21 million men and women and children as victims of
FORCED LABOR
 90% of the victim are exploit by private enterprises and
entrepreneurs
 22% sexually abused
 68% work compulsive in agricultural
Integration
The final issue relates to how migrants interact with their
new home country
 the access to housing, health care and education is not easy
 Considerable variation in the economic integration of
migrants
 Migrant children are granted with their right of citizenship
and right to public benefits
 Difficulties in interaction, the race, religion and customs
from old country.
Conclusion
 Global migration entails the globalization of people
 A highly educated professional may find moving to
another country financially rewarding.
 A victim of sex trafficking view the process as
disempowering
 Like globalization, migration produces different and often
contradictory response