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Topic: Global Migration: The Contemporary World

Global migration refers to people moving to live in foreign countries, often for work. Reasons for migration vary but include safety, natural disasters, political conflict, education, family, career opportunities, and economic betterment. How and why people migrate depends on push and pull factors. Push factors force people to leave their home countries due to issues like lack of safety, natural disasters, or conflict, while pull factors attract migrants to new locations for opportunities not available in their home countries. Migration can improve quality of life by providing safety, education, career opportunities, and cultural enrichment, though the experience differs greatly depending on individual circumstances and immigration policies.

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Topic: Global Migration: The Contemporary World

Global migration refers to people moving to live in foreign countries, often for work. Reasons for migration vary but include safety, natural disasters, political conflict, education, family, career opportunities, and economic betterment. How and why people migrate depends on push and pull factors. Push factors force people to leave their home countries due to issues like lack of safety, natural disasters, or conflict, while pull factors attract migrants to new locations for opportunities not available in their home countries. Migration can improve quality of life by providing safety, education, career opportunities, and cultural enrichment, though the experience differs greatly depending on individual circumstances and immigration policies.

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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

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