IMMIGRANTS AND EMIGRANTS

OF INDIA AND CHINA

INTRODUCTION

• Immigration is the introduction of new people

into a habitat or population
• Emigration is the act of leaving one's native
country or region to settle in another.
• Human migration is physical movement
by humans from one area to another, sometimes
over long distances or in large groups
PUSH FACTORS
• Lack of employment or entrepreneurial opportunities

• Lack of political or religious rights

• Shortage of farmland; hard to start new farms

• Oppressive legal/political conditions

• Famine or drought

• Cultural fights with other cultural groups

PULL FACTORS
•Better opportunities for acquiring farms for self and children

•Cheap purchase of farmland

•More job opportunities

•Higher pay

•Better welfare programmes and better schools

•Join friends and relatives who have already moved

•Build religious community

•Political freedom
 
IMMIGRANTS OF INDIA AND CHINA
• India happens to be amongst the most
important destination for Asian migrants second
to US, going by the number of migrants 6.1
million.
TOP IMMIGRATION COUNTRIES(no of
immigrants in millions)

INDIA 5.4
AUSTRALIA 5.5
FRANCE 6.7
SPAIN 6.9
UNINED KINGDOM 7
CANADA 7.2
SAUDI ARABIA 7.3
GERMANY 10.8
RUSSIA 12.3
UNITED NATIONS 42.8
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
Source: Migration and Remittance factbook 2011
NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS BY COUNTRY
  1  United States: 38,355,000  
2  Russia: 12,080,000  
3  Germany: 10,144,000  
4  Ukraine: 6,833,000  
5  France: 6,471,000  
6  Saudi Arabia: 6,361,000  
7  Canada: 6,106,000  
8  India: 5,700,000  
9  United Kingdom: 5,408,000  
10  Spain: 4,790,000  
11  Australia: 4,097,000  
12  China: 3,852,000  
13  Pakistan: 3,254,000  
14  United Arab Emirates: 3,212,000  
15  Israel: 2,661,000  
SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of countries by immigrant population
IMMIGRANTS TO US(2010)
1 Mexico:23.7 %  
2  China:4.7 %  
3  Philippines:4.2 %  
4  India:4 %  
5  Ireland:3 %  
6  El Salvador:2.7 %  
6  Cuba:2.7 %  
8  Dominican Republic:2.3 %  
8  Canada:2.3 %  
10  Korea, South:2.2 %  
SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of countries by immigrant population
EMIGRANTS OF INDIA AND CHINA
• It is estimated that around 15 million Indians
live abroad (World Migration Report, 2000).
• Every year hundreds of thousands of Indians
emigrate.
• India is the country with the second largest
number of emigrants after Mexico.
• 11.4 million people from India went abroad in
2009.
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TOP 10 COUNTRIES FOR EMIGRANTS IN 2010(In

Million)
TURKEY 4.3

PHILIPPINES 4.3

UK 4.7

PAKISTAN 4.7

B'DESH 5.4

UKRAINE 6.6

CHINA 8.3

RUSSIA 11.1

INDIA 11.4

MEXICO 11.9

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Source: Migration and Remittance factbook 2011
TOP 10 REMITTANCE RECEIVING COUNTRIES
2010(In Billion)
NIGERIA 10

SPAIN 10.2

BELGUIM 10.4

B'DESH 11.1

GERMANY 11.6

FRANCE 15.9

PHILLIPPINES 21.3

MEXICO 22.6

CHINA 51

INDIA 55

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Source: Migration and Remmitance Factbook 2011

CONCLUSION
• Comparing the data of India and china of immigrants and
emigrants India shows better results. In the data of top 10
countries for emigrants India stands second having 11.4
million people as emigrants and China being at fourth
position. In Remittance receiving nations India stands fist
containing 55 billion dollars and china being second having
51 billion.

• India being a democratic country open heartedly accepts all

religions and people from all parts of the world so India is
becoming a good choice for the people to immigrate to in
comparison to china which is a communist country is not
much open socially and it has its culture specific issues
which make it a bit unfavourable destination of people to
immigrate to.
• Talking about emigration India is far ahead in
that areas also as Indians are found in almost
many parts of the world. Indians are
hardworking and committed to their work and
their expertise and knowledge is the basis of its
acceptance from other countries.

• Talking about china Still people there not feel

favourable to emigrate to different countries
until it is too necessary which reflect their
inflexibility or their socio economic bindings
which hinders them.
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