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International Migration: Definition, Causes and Effects

This paper explores the concept of migration, and its causes and effects, with a focus on international migration. Various journal articles, reports, and policy documents are reviewed to address the controversies concerning the concept and key issues of migration. The paper indicates that migration is not only a contested concept, but migration research has resulted in different outcomes. It is mainly affected by personal, socio-economic, and political factors associated with the origin and host countries. Similarly, scholars have been asking the question, “who is a migrant?” for decades without a definite answer. It is also important to consider “what would happen after migrants obtain host country citizenship”: would they continue to be migrants, the host countries’ citizens, or both? This paper contributes to advancing our knowledge and broadening our understanding of the concept of migration and key issues associated with it. It also serves as a base for further discussion.

Dynamics of International Migration

Specific learning outcomes: Knowledge: • Understanding human migration in historical and contemporary perspective • Becoming familiar with global migration trends, push and pull factors of worldwide migration flows, different migration typologies (e.g. regular and irregular, circular, transit and return migration) and migration fields of study (e.g. labour migration, forced migration, migration and development, migration and education, migration and gender, immigrant integration and citizenship) • Learning about the social consequences of migration for sending and receiving societies and about these societies’ responses to migration • Learning about migration actors, policies and legislation at different level of governance, old and new ethnic minorities as well as about specific tools to cope with discrimination and racism in a work-life perspective Skills: • Ability to grasp the breadth of the current migration phenomena as well as to differentiate between perceptions and reality of their extent • Ability to identify differences and similarities between migration flows and between societies’ responses to migration • Ability to deconstruct one’s own position in relation to migrants and ethnic minorities and thus to put oneself into “migrant shoes” Attitude: • Disposition to self-reflectiveness when working or being exposed to encounters with migrants and minorities • Appraisal of the opportunities and benefits of international migration for the individual and the society as a whole

International Migration and Migration Theories

2016

There is growing intellectual interest in issues associated with international migration. The literature on migration is continuously growing due to this trend. However, theorization of migration is not strong when compared to other branches of international transactions. This may be due to the complexity and diversity of the area covered by international migration. The paper mainly focuses on theoretical perspectives of international migration. In line with that, an overview of international migration is provided at the beginning. It is followed by types of international migration and migration theories. Prominence is given to theoretical perspectives of international migration and the classification of migration theories. In addition, shortcomings of migration theories are examined.

The Content and Basic Characteristics of International Migration

PROBLEMS OF SYSTEMIC APPROACH IN THE ECONOMY

This article addresses the theoretical aspects regarding the concepts, theories, factors, types of migration. As well as the historical and current directions of migrants; the structure of migration policies, the documents that regulate migration in the EU, as well as the directives related to immigration. The demographic situation of the EU is a deplorable one, characterized by the continuous aging of the population, the decrease in the birth rate, here, according to the opinion of several specialists, the migrant population comes to solve the existing problems. Migrants belong to the 27-38 age group, who move with their families for an indefinite period of time and whose fertility is high. Migration plays an important role on the economic development of the EU states, but also on the economies of the states of origin of the migrants. Foreigners represent cheap labor, who are ready to work for any wage and who will fill those positions that the local population ignores. Among the r...