Global Migration in an

OFW Context
244 million International Migrants

▪ Current estimates are that there are 244 million

international migrants globally or around 3.3
percent of the world’s population.

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Global Migration
Global Migration
▪ the movement of a person or a group of people, to
settle in another place, often across a political or
administrative boundary.

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2 Types of Migration
Internal Migration

▪ migration within the country such as cities or

provinces.

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International Migration

▪ migration outside the country.

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Advantages and
Disadvantages of a Country
Losing People
Advantages

▪ Money sent home by migrants.

▪ Decreases pressure on jobs and resources.
▪ Migrants may return with new skills.

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Disadvantages

▪ People of working age move out reducing the size

of the country’s potential workforce.
▪ Gender imbalances are caused as it is typically
men who seek to find employment elsewhere.
Women and children are left.
▪ “Brain drain” if many skilled workers leave.

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Advantages and
Disadvantages of the Host
Country
Advantages

▪ A richer and more diverse culture.

▪ Helps to reduce any labor shortages.
▪ Migrants are more prepared to take on low paid,
low skilled jobs.

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Disadvantages

▪ Increasing cost of services such as health care and

education.
▪ Overcrowding.
▪ Disagreements between religions and cultures.

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The Push-Pull Factor
Pull factors

▪ factors in the destination country that attract the

individual or group to leave their home.

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Push factors

▪ refers to conditions which force people to leave

their homes.

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“ Does migration
improve the quality
of life?

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