Module 12: Global Migration Flashcards
It is the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily in a new
location.
Migration
TYPES OF MIGRATION:
INTERNAL MIGRATION and INTERNATIONAL
MIGRATION
It is human migration within one geopolitical entity, usually a nation-state.
INTERNAL MIGRATION
It occurs when peoples cross state boundaries and
stay in the host state for some minimum length of
time.
INTERNATIONAL
MIGRATION
CATEGORIES OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS
- temporary labour
migrants; - irregular, illegal, or
undocumented
migrants; - highly skilled and
business migrants; - refugees;
- asylum seekers;
- forced migration;
- family members;
- return migrants;
- and long-term, low-
skilled migrants.
intend to establish their permanent residence in a new country and
possibly obtain that country’s citizenship.
Permanent Migrants
Intend only to stay for a limited periods of time;
perhaps until the end of a particular program of
study or for the duration of a their work contract or
a certain work season.
Temporary Migrants
It is the recruitment, transportation, transfer,
harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the
threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of
abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of
power or of a position of vulnerability or of the
giving or receiving of payments or benefits to
achieve the consent of a person having control
over another person, for the purpose of
exploitation.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
ELEMENTS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
- The Act (What is done)
- The Means (How it is
done) - The Purpose (Why it is
done)
Recruitment, transportation, transfer,
harbouring or receipt of persons
The Act (What is done)
Threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in
control of the victim
The Means (How it is
done)
For the purpose of exploitation, which includes exploiting the
prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery or
similar practices and the removal of organs.
The Purpose (Why it is
done)
It is the fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of
anything that is strange or foreign.
XENOPHOBIA
It is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often
results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their
race or ethnicity.
RACISM
It is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of
people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age,
or sex.
DISCRIMINATION