SOSC 1130 Lecture Notes - Immigration, Human Capital, Chain Migration
18 May 2014
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Un: between long term (migrant: moves and stays for at least one year in a diff geographical region: in one country or other country) and short term (up to 6 months) Internal migration - moving within national borders (emigrant: original land); international migration: move outside the national border (immigrant: destination) Sometimes people can make money in canada then being an engineer in india, but lower position title. Investor - business migration: developed in the early 1980s. Criteria change in response to circumstances: globalization. Hk as part of britain: people who are wealthy, then move to canada, have large amount of capital, originally 500,000, then 800,000 etc. Research of migration in various discipline and seek to explain the process of migration. And who permanently from point a to b: micro-approaches/lmmigrant motivation. Has limitation, is a theory that people continue to use overtime, and goes along with common sense.
