FINAL REPORT According to my research plan, my research topic is on migration and brain drain (with a case study on African students in Sweden). I will start by defining migration which is the area I am going to be researching on. According to Castle and Miller (2008), Migration is the process or means by which people move from one geographical location to another geographical location (Castle and Miller, 2009). However, migration plays a key role in the development of both developed and developing countries. I will go further to state that Migration of people is not a new phenomenon, as people have always migrated from one country to another for various reasons. However, these movements may have certain enormous effect on the African continent, and it might also as well have a negative impact on the current development process that the region is undergoing (ILO, 2009). Apart from economic and war driven migrants (refugees); there is also another group of migrants (students) which are from different parts of Africa in search for better education abroad. The migration of Africans into Europe and America can be traced back to the 1960s, when large number of Africans migrated, engaging in an unprecedented expansion of access to education across Europe and America (Adepoju, 2004). The increasing movement of people from Africa to other parts of the world has been credited to the advent of globalization by many researchers. Africa in general has experienced mass migration of people into other parts of the world due to various reasons. A number of these African migrants include students that are in search of education outside their country of origin; and my research intends to focus on this group of people. Students lea... ... middle of paper ... ... their studies, or remain in Sweden and try to start a new life. The push factor plays a big role in this process of decision making; and this is because many African students that are leaving politically unstable countries or low economic countries, are often captured by the opportunities that they hope to achieve here in Sweden, rather than returning to Africa were the hope of having such opportunities are often very low. Furthermore, The push factor can also be considered as playing a larger role on why these students have decided to leave their country in exchange for a life in Sweden because many of them actually did not know much about Sweden before coming; but they just had the notion that the life in Europe would be far-more better than the one they had back in Africa, and the opportunities they stand to gain here is Sweden would be more than that in Africa.
This essay will discuss the issue of migration. Migration is movement by humans from one place to another. There are two types of migration, it is immigration and emigration. Immigration is movement by people into the country and emigration is movement by humans, who want to leave countries voluntary or involuntary. Economic, religious, education, social and economic problems are reasons for migration.
This essay will define and explain the term migration and then discuss and examine emigration and circulation as well as arrivals. Further its going present some qualitative and quantitative evidence from the book “Understanding Social Lives” and the online module strands to support the claim.
“Migration uproots people from their families and their communities and from their conventional ways of understanding the world. They enter a new terrain filled with new people, new images, new lifeways, and new experiences. They return … and act as agents of change.” (Grimes 1998: 66)
Migration is the spread of human beings from one location to another in hopes of staying there permanently. North America is a product of Migration being that the entire population once migrated here from other countries or continents. With this being said, all of the humans walking on North American soil has ancestors from another place on earth. Push and pull factors are the two different reasons for motivating a person(s) relocation, which is what drove many people to North America. Push factors are are the motivation to move people away from a location and pull factors are those that attract them to the new location. Globalization is a process that involves the mixing of people, corporations and governments of separate nations. Globalization is directly connected to migration because it is actually the beginning of the mixture of culture and religions many years ago.
Immigration has been a topic that has caused multiple discussions on why people migrate from one country to another, also how it affects both the migraters and the lands they go. Immigration is the movement from one location to another to live there permanently. This topic has been usually been associated with sociology to better explain how it affects people, cultures and societies. Sociology has three forms of thinking that are used to describe and analyze this topic. There are three forms of thinking that are used to tell and describe immigration to society; structural functionalist, symbolic interactionist, and conflict theory. Each of these theories uses different forms of thinking and rationality to describe and explain socio topics.
Simmons, A., Diaz Briquets, S., & Laquian, A. A. (1977). Social change and internal migration. A review of research findings from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
It’s a moral issue, it depends on how one looks at it. We can speak about the major draw backs of brain drain and how these people deprive their countries from development, but in return we can’t force them to stay in an environment where their presence is rewarded by nothing. Throughout this paper and the quest for finding solutions to brain drain, it came to my notice that brain drain is not the disease but it’s a symptom of massive illness that is caused by the accumulation of poverty, lack of education, social injustice, corruption and many more of unresolved issues throughout the years. If we want to fight brain drain and defeat it we need to fight the source of the problem and cut it from its roots, or otherwise all our findings and research will be scarce.
In addition to spending more on the actual education and university fees, the international students also have to spend on boarding and food. Finding a place to stay that is conveniently near to the university and other places of interaction, is affordable, accepts immigrants, and suits the basic requirements - is hard, sometimes impossible. A compromise on at least one criterion of the above is required to sustain in the new country.
The aim of the article is to find out the impact colonizer’s policies really made on education of Ghana and Togo after the two countries gained independent from their colonial masters. The research questions the article attempted to answer are: The article answered the following research questions: a. What factors accounted for the difference in school enrollment between the two countries. b. What role does missionary work played in education on Ghana and Togo? c. What are the roles of the national institutions on comparative subnational development in Africa? d. Why did the Europeans build institutions in Africa? e. Why we used the Europeans methods in drawing Africa borders in the 19th century? f. Can the methods designed by the Europeans
Migration have tendency to grow, so the numbers of migrants keep increasing whit every year. Almost a half of the migrants are women. Migrations can be examined from to aspects- it promotes people developments and it can also disturb developments. Migrations for some people are only chance to fulfill their dreams and escape their lives, but for others migration can make their lives more miserable than they were before. Gender talking about migration is essential element, because it shows why people migrate and what their destinations are. The main areas from which people migrate are Africa, China, Philippines, and India. Migration can be external or internal. Everything that is around us- actions and other people that make society where we live in, can impact decision of people to migrate to other places.
The African people are skilled agriculturalists and quite possibly one of the results of the European incursions into the continent could have been t... ... middle of paper ... ...are men. Once educational institutions are in place problems with public health, investment decisions, religious radicalism, and violence will begin to fade away. Works Cited Artadi, Elsa V., and Xavier Sala-i-Martin. The Economic Tragedy of the XXth Century: Growth in Africa.
I used to live in Jordan. A country struggling with its limited resources. A country in the middle of all of the Middle Eastern disputes. Where the streets are full of rubble and garbage and people are struggling to make ends meet to support their families. Many students in the Middle East feel like the education there does not meet up to their standards. Therefore, they often go overseas to gain an education that is much richer and profound.
Migration from one area to another in search of a better livelihood has always been a key feature in human lives. It serves as an outlet for better earnings, job opportunities and reduced income risks. When certain sectors or regions fall short of their potential to support the residents, people tend to migrate to get a hold of better opportunities away from the place of origin. Migration has become a universal phenomenon. Due to the industrialisation, there has been an expansion in transportation and communication hence widening the gap between rural and urban areas, including a shift of labour force towards more urbanised areas.
whereas skilled laborers move relatively unhindered, those who do not belong to this elite category have limited access to migration opportunities, at least within existing legal frameworks, policies and practices, especially in South Africa. This is therefore an urgent for a re-examination of currently migration policies in Africa, especially with regards to how human rights of migrants and asylum seekers are perceived. Globalization has increased the mobility of capital, information, and goods, thus facilitating the non-liberalization of human mobility. Violent armed conflict in much of Africa has had its own share of increasing human mobility of those fleeing persecution.
Education plays an importance role in every individual’s life. Most at times, people in their native land are faced with challenges with education because of the large number of people who want to go school. There is also fewer school available in these native countries making it hard for people to have access. When this happen, they either have to pay a higher amount of money to go to a private school or wait in line for their turn. Addition to this, only brilliant students get to go school due the high demand nature of the school and this forces most people to emigrate to a country where they will have easy access to school or they do not have to wait to go to school. Not only does affordability and accessibility of school contribute to people emigrating to other countries but good job and high payed jobs opportunities are a factor. Countries turn to value outside certificate then theirs. This encourages people to travel for a certificate so they can get good jobs and be payed well. In summary, people emigrate to other countries for economical, familial, and educational reasons. People in their native land are under-pay and this compel them to migrate to another country. Families who been separated for one reason or the other want to reunite so they can help each other. Low accessibility to school forces people to migrate to another country where they can have easy access to the school. Authorities