Migration happens because an imbalance between population and the economic resources, bringing people from regions that suffer from a dearth of land or capital resources, such as Central America, Southeast Asia, or Eastern Europe, to those richer like North America and Western Europe.
Globalization has both facilitated and motivated the migration from states with few economic prospects to those in which the labor supply is low and has to be fulfill. Is in this cases when cases like the “Brain Drain” happens, which basically consist on the movement of well-educated people from one place to another because of their better-remunerated conditions in the host country.
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Migrations have a lot to do with the economic factors of both the home and host country, and sometimes can bring good or bad outcomes. But what is really clear is that migration has become an opportunity to search an economic opportunity.
The influx of immigrants provokes backlashes by the host-country populations. Some reactions are political movements favoring the natives and discriminating against immigrants, they use to gain force during economic downturns; immigrants are often blamed for unemployment and rising crime rates.
For example US citizens’ tolerance of economic migrants is cyclical: in weak economies, Americans begin to fear that immigrants are taking jobs away from the US citizens. Fear and resentment of immigrants and the inevitable frictions caused by cultural diversity have taken other forms; the issue of emigration and migration continues in an era of globalization and provides impetus for conflict within and across societies.
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