MIGRATION AND EXPATRIATES

In this class we difined migration as the movement of people from one place in the world to another for the purpose of taking up permanent or semipermanent residence and Expatriates as a person who lives or works outside of his or her own home country on a non-permanent basis.
We also talk of some types like internal and external migration, emigration, immigration, step migration, chain migration.
People Migrate because of two factors: Pull or push.

• Some push factors are: economic, political, cultural, and environmentally based. Not enough jobs, few oportunities, pollution, slavery.
• Some pull factors are:
  economic, political, cultural, and environmentally based. Job opportunities, security, family links, enjoy, education.

We discuses the meaning and importance of Remittances: Transfers of money by immigrants to their home countries. Three largest recipients of remittances among developing countries: India, China and Mexico.

The problem with remittances is the lack of control. There isnt a system to the accountancy of all the remittances flows, is Outside the conventional banking system and Money laundering and terrorism financing.

QUESTION: What was the reason of the liberalization of Canadian inmigration policy?

"Was the result of the country’s greater post-Holocaust commitment to equality and human rights. It was also, quite fundamentally and perhaps inevitably, a concession to “push” factors—
here making some restless to leave home, and there making others content to stay—
operating in the post-war world.
Post-war immigrants have tended to come from developing societies: these societies produce the kind of human capital that has sought out Canada and that Canada has in turn sought out. Developing societies—or those already advanced societies beset by war, economic recession, or political instability—have, in the last quarter century, produced a match between local “push” and Canadian “pull” factors which has engendered human movement."

Bibliografia: Verbeeten, David. 2007. The Past and Future of Immigration to Canada. Journal of International Migration & Integration, pag 6.