Global migration refers to the movement of people to foreign countries primarily for work, influenced by immigration laws and safety. Individuals migrate for various reasons, including safety, education, and economic improvement, with push factors driving them away from their home countries. Migration can lead to improved quality of life through cultural experiences and opportunities, despite the challenges faced during the process.

1. The Contemporary World
Topic: Global Migration
WHAT IS GLOBAL MIGRATION?
➢ Global migration a situation in which people go to live in foreign countries, especially in order to find work.
However, the reasons why people migrate diffeer depending on an individual’s situation. (Cambridge Dictionary)
➢ How people migrate depends greatly on its nation’s current immigration laws and the safety of the route itself.
➢ While some people are able to travel by airplane or train, others do not have the same luxury.
➢ Emigrants, when a person freely chooses to move to another place. It might be temporary or permanent. Ofteen
move to resettlle as a family, to fulfill a job placement, or as a reprieve from situations of injustice and war.
➢ Transportation is one of the examples of how migration can take drastically diffeerent forms.
WHY DO PEOPLE MOVE?
Global migration can be understood as a cause and effeect relationship, though the causes are just as numerous as their
effeects. People move across international borders for a variety of reasons, including (though not limited to):
✔ Safety
✔ Natural Disaster
✔ Political Conflict
✔ Education
✔ Family
✔ Career
✔ Economic bettlerment
THE PUSH-PULL FACTOR
➢ it is a factors in the destination country that attlract people to a new place largely because of the opportunities
presented in the new location were not available to them previously.
➢ Example, a family moving from a country with minimal job opportunities for a successful career.
➢ The beneficial elements that the new country presents encourages people to migrate there in order to seek a
bettler life for their families.
➢ A push factor refers to conditions which force people to leave their homes.
➢ A person who would typically move because of distress(safety, natural disaster, or political conflict).
➢ Places that experience drought and famine, war conflicts, and/or high unemployment would contribute to the
push factors that trigger for that country’s residents.
DOES MIGRATION IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE?
➢ Whether individuals migrate due to push factors, there are undeniable benefits involved in adapting to a new
country.
➢ Some benefits are simply fun and exciting: learning a new culture and experiencing new opportunities, such as
tasting new foods and gettling to know a diffeerent approach to communication, or immersing yourself in the new
cultural activities, can be exciting and enriching
PREPARED BY: Nina Mae Sabillo