HUMAN MOVEMENT
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What are migrants, refugees, IDP, asylum seekers, and stateless persons
Why do they migrate? Pull/Push/Policy factor
What are their impacts on both home country and host country
1. What are migrants, refugees, IDP, asylum seekers, and stateless persons
: stateless persons
Internal migrants
Migrants:
External migrants
Asylum seekers
refugees
IDPs
If Granted refugee status
• WW2 Jews
• Syria refugees
Some of them prefer to be
IDPs than refugees in
Greece.
• Mexican immigrants
• Iranian asylum seekers
(Dina Nayeri)
• Honduran Children
2. Why do they migrate? Pull/Push/Policy factor
■ Push:
– political or social discrimination (WW2 Jews)
– Away from violence (Honduran, Syrians, Iranians)
– weak job prospects (Mexicans)
– or natural disasters
■ Pull
– demand for labor in the destination country ( poultry plant)
■ Policy factor
– Liberal view # welcoming (ex: Canadians sponsor groups)
– Realistic view # denying (ex: Greek party Golden Dawn)
– Structural view (ex: poultry plant’s workers White Men -> Women -> migrants)
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Humanitarian view (ex: Ungrateful refugees)
3. What are their impacts on both host country and home country
■ Host
– Economy (Generally beneficial)
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More demands on food, supplies…
No cost on the preparation of workforce
lump of labor fallacy
Society and Culture
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Tensions ( ex: Soldiers of Odin, Golden dawn, France black people )
■ Home – highly debatable, and there’s no short answer
– Brain gain view (beneficial to home country)
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Bring back pro-democracy attitudes
Remittances
Brain drain (harmful to home country)
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Doctors  Pharmaceutical factories (ex: Dina Nayeri’s mother)
3 Questions
■ Instead of spending money on border control ( proved useless), or investing in the
migrants home country ( development makes migration more likely, see above
figure). What is a better way to reduce the immigration rate?
■ Followed by the first question, why is it so justified to reduce the immigration rate
with a national force? Doesn’t migration right somehow imply the right to equality like
the right to education does?
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What would be the result of anybody being able to go anywhere?
■ Where do you wish you were born? Dubai.