Types of migration
Moving for a better job opportunity
(voluntary) Economic migration
OFW
Overseas Filipino Worker
Which factors entice people to a new area?
Pull factors
Name the 3 Is
Interpersonal
Institutional
Internalised
Moving to go to school or college
Migration for education (voluntary)
A person who has been forced to leave their home and goes to another country to find help
Refugee
War would be an example of a..
Push/Pull?
Push factor
Being treated unfairly or unkindly by others due to your ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation or diasability.
- Which 'I'?
Interpersonal discrimination
Moving because your home and/or community is in an area where there is fighting or because it has been taken over by troops
Conflict related (forced, often temporary)
Moving because you have to. Either because of a natural disaster or for extreme social, economic or political reasons
Forced migration
What is the name for things you need to overcome in order to get to get to the new place?
Intervening obstacles
when things have led someone to feel negative about themselves or limit themselves because of the discrimination they have experienced
Internalized
Moving because of drought, floods, natural hazards, crop failure or because land is being converted to another use (e.g. mining, dams..)
Environmental migration (forced)
A person who has been forced to leave their home and moves to another area of the same country
Internally Displaced Person (IDP)
Name 2 examples of intervening obstacles
Any relevant obstacles count. e.g.
- Having enough money to travel/relocate
- Ability to speak the new language
- Being granted a Visa, which largely depends on the political relations between the country of origin and destination
- Practical travel concerns
- Having qualifications to get a job in the destination country (professional qualifications in one country aren't always accepted in others places).
When society is structured in a way that is disadvantaging certain groups. For example, because of the laws in place, or who gets access to opportunities and who doesn't
Institutional
Moving because you hold views and opinions that make you a target for persecution in your own country
Political migration (forced)
The name for the entire scattered population of a nation who now live around the world
Diaspora
e.g. The Filipino Diaspora are all the people around the world who identify as Filipinos.
According to Lees model, what determines when a person would leave their place of origin and move to a new place.
When the push factors in their current place are high, and the pull factors in the place of origin are low.
When people are able to overcome intervening obstacles.
(The 2nd part is often forgotten- we're a very mobile community here at ISM and not everyone is so fortunate to be able to move so easily!!)