Migration 3 Flashcards
USA
patterns of migration
- nearly 25% from mexico - bilateral coridoors
- india and china starting up businesses
- other cluntries due to having one of the best education systems in the world
USA
attractiveness
- employment oppotunites for high and low skilled
- wage differentals - remittances
- importance of farmily reunification
-possability of green cards
USA
Emigration patterns
- Mostly return migrants - they earned eniugh miney to reunite with family
- economic migrants - areas with political ties eg: canada
USA
migration policies
- 675,000 - visas ( worldwide limit )
- 480,000 for family reunification ( they could think that they wont send remittances and wont need enough suport )
- temporary visas to environmental migrants
USA
interdependace
- low skilled mexicans working in USA ( 2% of GDP from remittances )
- mexico benifiting from TNCS
- Bilateral trade = 5 million US jobs created
- Educational exchanges 100,000 a year
USA
oppotunites of migration
- spanish is now taught inn american schools, more education and more skills so better jobs
- mexicans filling unempolyment gaps
- more mexican culture
USA
challeneges of migration
- more drug crime - mexico 30 billion
- aging populationin mexico due to brain drain
- migration from rural areas in mexico = less food = starvation
LAOS - patterns of internal migration
- 1/5th of population have migrated internally = most rural to urban
- Laos is female dominated 60% trying to find work in bars and the garment sector
LAOS - patterns of immigration
- mainly from Vietnam = construction and mining eg: bridges linking the countries
LAOS - emigration patterns
- main destination of Thailand = insufficient land for primary sector In Laos due to droughts
- bad education and demand for low skilled jobs
- relocation of ford factory’s to Thailand = many job opportunities
LAOS
3 migration policies
RECRUITMENT FAIRS - educate about trafficking and warning signs
HUMAN TRAFFICKING POLICIES -
Prevention - educate
Protection - shelters, counselling, reintegration
Prosecution - increasing border patrol, research into trafficking routes
ASEAN - allows movement of skilled labour
supra national organisation
LAOS - interdependence
High speed rail line
- Vientiane to China = trade link
- pollution
- taxpayers money would rather be spent on healthcare and education
LAOS - interdependence
Don Sahong dam
- along the Mehong river
- generates electricity
- costs public money
- flooding and displacement
LAOS - interdependence
Friendship bridge
- From Vientiane
- to strengthen trade
- allows access to border for trade overseas
- a lot easier for drug trade and human trafficking
LAOS
Migration opportunities
- migration in Thailand = Remmitances back to LAOS - good as 22% live below poverty line
- political stability = war 200 years ago - now both apart of ASEAN and Asian investment bank