POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Civil Society
30 Aug 2016
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Migrants divided by types: skilled, low-skilled, family migrants, refugees. Based on family migration, yet massive economic pull for skilled migrants. Asylum/refugees: overconcentration of resources on the few who make it to the global north. Rights vs numbers: more immigrants the north admits, the less it can provide them and vice versa. What is immigration: the movement from one country for at least a year. Currently, 200 million immigrants worldwide, or three percent of the global population: voluntary: skilled and low-skilled labourers, highly educated service sector worker and family members, forced: those expelled and those fleeing war, persecution, economic depression or. Voluntary migrants: defined by immigrations countries such as canada, australia. Immigrants came from particular (temporary) purposes or by product as refugee flows (germany, uk, netherlands) Germans did not define themselves then through immigration. Immigration is bound up, part of nation building process, it was an effort to transfer an entire cultures over from uk to the new world.
