an overview of migration

1. Migration and Globalization

2. Types of migration
• Internal migration
• International migration
• Forced migration
Asylum seekers
Refugees( People who leave their home because they have suffered
or fear they will suffer persecution due to
their/Race/Religion/Nationality/Political Opinions
They seek asylum in other countries and can be granted Asylum seeker
status)
climate refugees
irregular migration

3. Migration : Factors
• Pull factors
• Push Factors

4. Types of migrant
• Economic migrant: Someone moving for better employment
opportunities or more money
• Social Migrants: Kinship chain migration
• Forced Migration
• Climate change-climate refugees
.

5. Globalisation
Changed the economic system creating push and pull factors required
to drive migration
• The two trends: – Rural to urban migration within emerging
economies and
• developing countries – International migration between
interconnected countries

6. Globalization
• Have generally always occurred within emerging economies such as rural to urban
migration in China
• Largest reginal movement -South/SE Asia to the Middle East (Oil and construction)
• Between countries = Mexico to USA
• Bangladesh – RMG and Middle East
• Circulation of people = Sub-Saharan countries
• Singapore
• 5th most globalized state in the world
• Attracts large international flows of migrants
• Est. 1819 as a British trading colony and attracted workers from the mainland China,
Malaysia and India
• When it gained independence it introduced stricter laws
• Biggest issues = the press telling us it is only an EU issue.

7. Outcomes
• Security and insecurity
• Conflict
• Crime
• Mixed culture
• Extremism
• Stricter rules

8. • Identity :How do you think the concepts of migration impacts on a
countries identity?
• Sovereignty
• A migrant is defines as “Someone who moves their permanent
residence from one country to another for at least a year”.