As we saw in class, migrant workers are the ones that go from one place to another to work due to voluntary or involuntary reasons. A clear example of migrant workers is the British Empire, during the colonization age, the British people migrated to the empire's colonies searching for wealth and better opportunities. Now days the most wanted places to migrate are : The United States of America, Spain, Italy, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Russia, and others, due to the good opportunities these countries offer and because they are developed countries.
The reasons to people migrate are due to many factors like, violence, work opportunities, improve life quality, higher income, political reasons, stability, etc. All these reasons could be summarized into two categories, the voluntary or involuntary reasons. The voluntary reasons are when the people goes abroad in order to look for better opportunities. by the other hand the involuntary reasons are when the people are forced to leave the country due to political problems, such as war or political instability, economical problems, etc. This usually happens on low income countries and its people look to the developed countries as a way of solving their problems. An example of this is the American dream many people have.
But it is the other case where well educated and skilled people migrate in order to improve their income and knowledge, this must not be confused with expatriate assignments or overseas experience, now that the main difference with them is the social economical factors. people who move from their domestic land to another looking for better wages, or who move to earn more money are called immigrants.
The reasons to people migrate are due to many factors like, violence, work opportunities, improve life quality, higher income, political reasons, stability, etc. All these reasons could be summarized into two categories, the voluntary or involuntary reasons. The voluntary reasons are when the people goes abroad in order to look for better opportunities. by the other hand the involuntary reasons are when the people are forced to leave the country due to political problems, such as war or political instability, economical problems, etc. This usually happens on low income countries and its people look to the developed countries as a way of solving their problems. An example of this is the American dream many people have.
But it is the other case where well educated and skilled people migrate in order to improve their income and knowledge, this must not be confused with expatriate assignments or overseas experience, now that the main difference with them is the social economical factors. people who move from their domestic land to another looking for better wages, or who move to earn more money are called immigrants.All the migrant process is related to the push and pull factors, or the attractiveness or repellents of a country to invite people or to make people leave from a country.
If we analyze the case of Canada, we could see that this country has been highlighted as a discriminante country because they used to accept only immigrants from the UK and USA. Later on the Canadian government was focused on looking for high skilled people and educated in order to compete and fulfill the high standards the world was demanding. By the other hand the country had to prevent the migration of native people to other countries because the knowledge was leaving to other countries. Finally they had to face an aging problem, the country was managed by old people and they needed new ideas, teenagers. All these problems to be solved were a hard work to the government and they had a tough time with this. Time has showed that the quality of the poeple arriving to the country wasn't the best, reason why they had to implement the point system as a way of protecting their sovereignty and their interests. I don't consider this to be a discrimination process, I look at it a good strategy to improve, if you want to be succesful to the constant changes and challenges globalization is bringing with it, the ones that are the best qualified, and posses the best people will have a better opportunity to success. They are defending their own interests, wealth and sovereignty,I dont see anything wrong with it and I argue that migration should be regulated.
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