A_ immigrants can be exploited for their cheap labor, developing countries may suffer brain drain as the limited resources they spend in educating their students amount to very little if that talent is enticed to another country. B_ immigration can become a social political issue where racism can be used to exploit feelings or as an excuse current woes of local population. Causes and Effects of Immigration Immigration is one of the problems that most of countries have. You can find immigrants everywhere and that is because of many problems. Immigration seems to be making more headline in recent years.
As the world globalizes in terms of nations economics, trade and investment, borders are opened up more easily for freer flow of goods and products. People are supposedly freer to move around the world.
...Sometimes immigration has good effects and sometimes it has bad effects but why do people immigrate and leave their counties and everything and go for the unknowable? What do they think they will have there? Why do they think they will live in the dream land? There should be many reasons for that. Knowing the reasons of why people immigrate, trying the solve them and knowing what are the effects of immigration are our goal.
There are many causes of immigration. One of the causes is conflict. Wars and conflicts are the main reasons of why people immigrate. When there is a war or conflict in a country, life becomes almost impossible there because the first think that will fall down is the economic, so people will suffer getting jobs and having good salaries and that will influence badly on their life, so
they will start looking for a batter life outside the country and that is where the first step of immigration start.
Also during wars life become like a big jail because if you move one step your life will be in danger. shah, 2008,p. 2/13) Another cause of immigration is that people may voluntary immigrate because they can`t get what they want in their country. For example: they study and graduate but they can`t get jobs or the educational system in the country is bad, so they immigrate seeking for a good schools and universities. The International Organization for Migration ( IOM ) said there are more than 300 million migrants around the world today. Europe, hosted the largest number of immigrants, with 70. 6 million people in 2005, the latest year for which figures are available.
North America, with over 45. million immigrants, is second, followed by Asia, which hosts nearly 25. 3 million. Most of today is migrant work come from Asia. ( Engeller, 2008, p. 1/5 ) The United Nations found that, in 2005, there were nearly 191 million international migrants worldwide, 3 percent of the world population. This represented a rise 26 million since 1990. Sixty percent of these immigrants were now in developed countries, an increase on that to the average rate of globalization ( the proportion of cross – border trade in all trade ), which exceeds 20 percent. The numbers of people living outside their country of birth is expected to rise in the future. facts and figures, 2009,p. 2/5)
The Middle West, some parts of Europe, small areas of South West Asia, and a few spots in the East Indies
have the highest percentages of immigrant population recorded by the UN Census 2005. The reliability of immigrant censuses is, however, lamentably low due to the concealed character of undocumented labor migration. The International Organization for Migration has estimated the number of foreign migrants to be over 200 million worldwide today. Resent surveys by Gallup found roughly 700 million adults would like to migrate to another country permanently if they had the chance.
The United States is the top desired destination country. ( Esipova and Ray, 2009. p. 3/5) It is true that people immigrate to get a better life, but there are many effect of immigration. Immigration can have positive and negative impacts on both the host country and the original country. The recipient country is usually an industrialized country in Western Europe, or the United States. For these countries immigrants offer various benefits, like country`s economy, immigrants offer an increased talent pool, if they have been well educated in their original country ( Shah, 2008,p. /13).
A concern about immigration reported by ISP ( Inter Press Service) showed that the large number of people are attempting to leave the devastation of their own country caused by the current form of globalization and other political and economic policies, which, as well as creating winners, is creating a large number of losers and increasing inequality. Also the host country may have problems with those immigrants like crimes, high particularly the Irish, Italian and Jewish. ( Chapman, 2007, p. 2/3)
In everything there are ood and bad effects more than what has been said, we can add that immigrants may face problems with the new traditions and new language and
new community because this community may disagree with what they have been raised on. Also many immigrants especially Muslims are having problems because of what is called terrorism, and when they immigrate and see how people treat them as they are terrors, they will hate this country and that will leave a bad thing inside them. Also immigrants face many drawbacks like they can be exploited for their cheap labor.
Developing countries may suffer brain drain as the limited resources they spend in educating their students` amount to very little if that talent is enticed to another country. Also immigration can become a social political issue, where racism can be used exploit feelings or as an excuse for current troubles of local population. ( Shah, 2008,p. 3/13) Also education is another drawback because education is a mixed picture 42 percent of Hispanics in the host country never finished high school, but many immigrants dropped out before even coming to the U. S, and others do so once they arrive.
Fortunately, their children and grand children do far batter, with high school completion rates rising to 89 percent by the third generation. (Chapmon, 2007. p. 1/3) According to what have been said by shah about what immigrants give to the industrialized countries. Here is the big problem. If the government knows what these people can give to the country why don`t they give them the opportunity in their original country and build it instead of suffering and another country and give their efforts to the host country.
Here we can know that the government is main reason of why people emigrate because if the government gives them the opportunities to
give their bests, we will see the country in its best image and also they can give the simple works to the homeless people who can accept a low salary if the government don`t pay good salaries so in this way we can decrease the percentage of people who immigrate and solve the homelessness problem.
As a conclusion after knowing the reasons of why people immigrate, trying to solve them and knowing that are the effects more than good effects so each country will find what they want and this can happen by improving educational system and support the students when they graduate and make it easier for them to find jobs.
