INDEV101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Immigration, Circular Migration, Economic Inequality
23 Nov 2016
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Learning objective: understand trends, key terms and facts, assess the relationship between international migration and development in two ways (disparities can be incentive to migrate, how migrants affect development in their countries of origin) Human migration: is the movement of people from one place in the world to another. Un: an international migrant is a person who stays outside their country of origin for at least one year. Perspectives could vary from country to country. We live in an age of migration. One in every 32 people is an international migrant. Most migrants are from china, india and the philippines. Distinction between countries of origin, transit, and destination is now blurred. Half of the world"s migrants today are women. Today, temporary migration is the new norm as people migrate several times often to different parts of the world while returning to country of origin more frequently. Internal migration: moving within a state, country, or continent.
