Migrants and Migration
The number of estimated migrants in 2017
What is 258 Million people?
The largest group of migrants in the US
This refers to the large-scale dispersal of ethnic, religious, or national groups
What is Diaspora?
The name of international migrants who settle down in the country they fled to
What is asylum seeker?
The fear of immigration led to this initiative in the European Union (2016).
What is Brexit?
The term for when people immigrate to another country to find work and send money back to their family, in their origin country
What is Remittance?
The term for favorable immigration policies, higher pay, labor shortages, cultural similarities which attracts people to migrate.
What is Pull Factor?
The term used to describe migration that is predominantly work and study driven, and is envisioned as temporary and unpredictable.
For diaspora, this helps people embrace their roots and stay connected to their heritage.
What is Globalization?
The continent with the highest migration population of 80 Million people
What is Europe?
Immigrants aid the aging native workforce. Improved Standard of living, wages, and lowered prices.
What is Economic Standpoint?
The country where remittances constitute 31.3% of its GDP
What is Nepal?
Political persecution is an example of a migration factor
What is push factor?
This Southeast Asian country has faced criticism for its handling of Burmese refugees, who flee due to political instability and ethnic persecution, leading to issues of irregular migration, human trafficking, and public backlash over perceived competition for jobs.
What is Thailand?
An example of positive and/or negative impacts of Remittance
Help recipients survive through poverty, natural disasters, buy basic needs and others.
Reduce poverty rates, raise educational levels, and increase nation’s foreign reserves.
Preferable to foreign aid.
OR
Skilled/educated citizens leave
Doesn’t result in economic growth or development
Target of local gangs
Family in bad regimes
Don’t end poverty
Divisiveness within families
Middle-income countries receive the most
Obscure problem of exploitation of migrants