The document discusses different types of migration including:
1) Emigration, which is moving to live permanently or long-term in a foreign country, leaving one's own country.
2) Internal migration, which is moving to live permanently or long-term in some other part of one's own country.
It also lists some common reasons that people migrate such as employment, marriage, moving with household, business, education, and access to healthcare, education, livelihood opportunities, or to escape violence, exploitation, poverty, war, conflict, climate change impacts, and persecution.
10. Why do people move?
To access
healthcare
,
education
Livelihood
– economic
opportunit
y
Violence,
exploitati
on
Climate
Change,
Natural
disasters
Persecutio
n
Family
reunification
PovertyWar
Conflict
Food,
water
insecurity
Discrimi-
nation,
stigma,
prejudice
Editor's Notes
In addition to persecution and conflict, today, the reasons that compel movement include poverty, discrimination, lack of access to rights, including education and health, lack of access to decent work, violence, gender inequality, the wide-ranging consequences of
climate change and environmental degradation, and separation from family.
Migrants who move out of necessity rather than free choice are at greater risk of human rights violations throughout their migration, are less likely to be able to formulate exit strategies if migration does not go to plan, and are therefore more likely to migrate in conditions which do not respect the dignity of the human being.
