Migration

Essay by NotSoOrdinaryGirlHigh School, 11th gradeB-, November 2014

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Migration Is Good For Everyone

Nowadays, there are many people leaving their native countries in order to find a better place to live. This is defined as Migration. Migration often now occurs everywhere across the world, where Migration is the movement of people from one place to another. People migrate for different many different reasons, which can be classified as economic, social, political or environmental. Migration is also influenced by the push and pull factor model, where Push factors are negative aspects of the sending country, while pull factors are positive aspects of the receiving country. In fact, these differentiating factors are really two sides of the same. Depending on its push and pull factors, some people choose to migrate and move to another country (pull factor) to enhance their career opportunities, while some would leave an area due to poverty or war. There are many reasons why migration occurs, but is it good for everyone?

Migration usually happens as a result of the push and pull factors combined.

There are several advantages relating to migration. For instance, on the Economic benefits and its perspective, money sent home (remittances) are high, this is because, when migrants migrate from their origin country, one of the reasons could be lack of job opportunities, and when they migrate to another country, which would more likely be a more developed country, there get paid more. This could also be influenced by the exchange rate, where migrants often get paid the same amount in the country they moved to and the country of their origin, but the country of where they moved to is more likely to be worth more due to the exchange rate. This usually varies within how high the exchange rate is. This has managed to spark a great influence towards...