Migration And International Migration

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Migration represents one of the biggest issues in today's world. It is defined as the movement of people across international boundaries, from one place to another, with the intention of settling in a new location. (Adapted from a definition of migration cited in National Geographic).
The post Cold-war era has been a period of massive population shifts. In fact, according to Castles (2003), in the last few decades, the world's migrant population has increasingly rose from 2.4 million in 1975, to 12.1 million in 2000. These movements of people are far from slowing down, as the process of globalization accelerates it. But international migration is not a new phenomenon. It was happening long before the age of globalization. It has always been present in our world, because of wars, slavery, conflict, persecution, famine, or even to create new countries and colonial migration.
M. Parker (2007), affirms that international migration is analyzed through two factors: the voluntary migration (pull factors) and the forced displacement (push factors).
Immigration is a controversial issue that divides society into two schools of thought; the supporters and the opponents. This, as a …show more content…

In fact, poorer people are given many opportunities that they could never obtain in their country of origin. Some people live in really bad conditions; no job, starvation, slavery forced labour, diseases, conflicts… As a result, as reported by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (2005), this pushes the flow of people to move to countries that offer a better life. Moreover with the globalizing process, people are starting to be aware of what surrounds them, that is, a better life. Thus, migrants are pulled towards developed countries that offer job opportunities, better education, better medical care, good climate, security, more freedom etc. Therefore, “around 60 % of all recorded migrants are now to be found in the developed countries”. (Kül, 2011, part

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