An Analysis of International Migration Theories

Patricia B. Strait’s article, “When Societies Collide: Part Three: Finding the Best Fit Immigration Model” (2011), showcases multiple immigration models for countries to choose from. Countries look at its current factors to determine which model is appropriate. No model is necessarily the best, but instead, Strait emphasizes finding the most fitting model for a country's historical, cultural, demographic, and economic prerequisites.

To begin it is helpful to understand that the word “migrant” is a rather contested concept, one that changes over time, and varies depending on the criteria used to assign it.(Raghuram & Erel, 2014, p.133)

permitted to work in America for a long time. The third and most questionable component is illicit migration. It is evaluated that 33% of all immigrants are in the United States illegally, numerous from Mexico. These general numbers are up from 5 million of every 1996 and 8.4 million out of 2000. The U.S.

In this paper, I decided to analyze the immigration policy. The immigration policies have had a deep history. The policies have been twisted, in the long run, to meet the demands of the time. However, most of the times, the policies have been unfair especially in regard to the immigrants. The overview contains a rich history of the policy progression and advancements in the immigration sector. In this paper, I decided to extrapolate on some few contemporary issues that are as a result of the immigration policies and laws. One of the contentious issues is the Visa policy. This is a system that is widely used by the US government. Though formulated with a good purpose, the formulation did not cater for everything that is associated with immigration. For instance, the immigrants who are on transit for employment are not selected based on the employment demand in the market, hence, they end up being stranded and thus are forced to accept low-paying jobs with poor working conditions. The solution to this is also discussed in the paper. I have also discussed on the open door policy and its implications which include overpopulation. Overpopulation on its part has directly affected both the immigrants and natives with many adverse effects. I was able to do research, and I consequently came up with a set of alternative methods that could be of help. However, I have also discussed

For the last year, people from the various regions of the globe have been fleeing their home countries and migrating toward several nations across Europe. What pushes them away and what draws them to their final destinations? Ascertaining a single motivation of immigration remains too complex to determine because a variety of factors and goals have lead to this grand movement. Several issues arise from increased numbers of immigrants who may or may not be finding what they seek.

Over the last decade, the number of immigrants has increased tremendously growing from 331,000 to a whopping 409,000. An increase of about 78,000 people ( Britannica). Despite media coverage on the issue many people are blind to the true nature of the situation . Therefore it is important to understand the extent to which immigration affects us all.

Thirteen million refugees and about 100 million immigrants have moved across borders within the last several decades (Potocky-Tripodi 2002). Global changes that have currently occured account for an unprecedented movement of individuals across the world in search of better opportunities and conditions.

From the micro-level to the macro-level globalization has transformed the world into a smaller place with constant interactions occurring at every moment between nations, institutions, groups, and individuals. And with this prevalent interconnectivity, migration between the Global North and the Global South has been a controversial consequence of this global integration (Hinojosa, 2015). For this reason one cannot ignore the importance and impact of migrant populations in the country they settle in, and in the countries of origin.

Unauthorized immigration has been a major political issue at least for the past 30 years, and is one of the most difficult to resolve. The problem relates to both economic and business realities of the U.S. and Mexico. There may be anywhere between 4 to 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. For undocumented immigrants from Mexico, population experts have discovered that there is a constant flow of both immigrants into the US and leaving the US . This is the primary reason why the exact number remains unknown.

The immigration population in the United States is large and comes from numerous countries across the globe. The population of foreign-born residents in America is roughly 40.7 million people in 2012. Within this number 18.6 are naturalized United States citizen and 22.1 million are not citizens. Of the 22.1 million noncitizens, roughly 11.3 million are unauthorized immigrants. Today’s immigrant population makes up 13 percent of the total United States population, still below its high of 14.8 percent in 1890. Most of the foreign born population in America comes from Mexico, which accounts for roughly 28 percent. Followed by China, India, Philippines, Vietnam, Cuba, and Korea. Of the undocumented foreign-born population a majority of those is from Mexico, roughly 6 million or 52 percent of these

     Illegal immigration in Mexico to the us has been a problem since the 1970s. Although the number of departures is dropping with 61,034 registered cases in 2011 . There were 11.7 million immigrants from mexico living in the us in 2014, and about half of them were in the country illegally, and that is

Nowadays migration is getting to be one of the dominant characteristics of the modern world since at the present moment that movement of people and migration of citizens from one country to another become a norm. Not surprisingly that such unparallel and extremely high level of migration results in substantial demographic, ethnical and socio-cultural changes in many countries of the world.

Immigration is the relocation of individuals to another country that they are not natives and do not have citizenship of that country. Approximately, there exist about 191 million immigrants worldwide. They tend to reside there as permanent citizens or get neutralized in the new country. Immigration can be legal or illegal. On this paper, we get to understand legal migration and its impacts

Throughout the last couple of decades, international migration has been on the rise. The number of international migrants has increased rapidly, reaching 244 million people in 2015 from just 173 million in 2000 (U.N. 2015). International migration has been made easier through the increased amount of globalization and greater accessibility to transit. Allowing groups of people a greater amount of mobility than ever seen before. Varying factors contribute to a person's decision to stay or leave their country including fear of religious persecution, economic hurdles, loss of hope etc. Specific driving factors however have been proved to be most significant in driving international migration. In addition, migration can lead to perceived benefits and disadvantages to both the host country and host natives. Therefore, international migration is primarily driven by job loss, persecution, and poverty. In addition, while international migration brings many benefits to the host country, it is often met with dissent from local people via the emergence of xenophobic movements.

Migration is a wide area of study to which a variety of issues arise from. Taylor & Francis Online defined migration as "the movement of people from one place to another with the intent of settling in the new location, either temporarily or permanently." There are different types of physical migration: intercontinental (between countries), intracontinental (between countries on a given continent), and interregional (within countries) (Taylor & Francis Online, 2016). With the new development of technology and the accessibility of travel in everyday life, the migration of people has become easier and more common. In Goran Rystad’s Immigration History and the Future of International Migration,