Global Migration

Prepared by:
Ma. Janda Ira Felina M. Benedictos
Instructor 1
Philippine Merchant Marine Academy
 Global Migration

Migration

 Is a result of the integration of

local communities and national
economies into global
relationships
 Global Migration
Migration

 It is a cause of further social

transformations in both migrant
sending and receiving countries
 Global Migration
Migration

 Is often a result of economic and

social development and may
contribute to further development
and improved economic and social
conditions or alternatively may
help to perpetuate stagnation and
inequality
 Global Migration
Types of Migration
Internal Migration
Refers to a move from one External Migration
area to another within a
country
Means crossing the
frontiers which separate
one of the world’s
approximately 200 states
from one another
 From Migration to Mobility:
Theories and Concepts
 Push and Pull Factors

 Professional Knowledge Work vs Unskilled Labor

 Structural Factors

 New Mobilities Paradigm

 From Migration to Mobility:
Theories and Concepts
 Push and Pull Factors

 “Push Factors” drove migrants to maximize

their income potential to higher income
countries
 “Pull Factors” demand for migrant labor and
the cumulative effects of ethnic
entrepreneurialism and ethnic enclaves
 From Migration to Mobility:
Theories and Concepts

 Professional Knowledge Work vs Unskilled Labor

 Cities act as gateways for transnational labor

and uneven development in the context of
global restructuring and called for greater
attention to the specifically urban dynamics of
contemporary migration
 From Migration to Mobility:
Theories and Concepts
 Structural Factors

 Migratory paths were taken as indicative of the

broader structure of global capitalism that
perpetuated a relation of dependency between
developing and developed countries and
concentrated wealth and opportunity in the
latter
 From Migration to Mobility:
Theories and Concepts
 New Mobilities Paradigm (Sheller and Urry, 2006)

 Movement away from the concept of migration

itself in favor of the concept of mobility
 Governing Mobility:
Three rationalities of governance that shape global
regulatory practices as identified by McNevin
• Market criteria became the basis fir
making decisions on immigration in states
with official migration programs
Neoliberalism • Flexibility of migrant Labor
• Migration became an important
dimension of global development
strategies

• A tradition of thought and practice that

begins from the basis of the equal worth
Humanitarianism of all human beings and a shared
consciousness as ‘humanity’
• 1951 Refugee Convention

• The threat posed by migration is a cause

Security of concern for sovereign countries the

issue with asylum seekers. Migrants that
lack documentation
Global Mobility and Social Transformation

• Diaspora were considered as exiled communities but

today they are recognized because of their income
potential
• Cultural hybridity is evident in today’s world because
of migration
• Hybridity has been theorized as a creative response
that occurs at the moment of cultural exchange and
that adds to the possibilities for resistance and civil
disobedience in the context of (neo)colonial
imposition.