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The number of immigrants developed nations accept is an ongoing issue for economic, environmental and political reasons. Discuss whether there are too many, too few or just the right amount of immigrants coming to Australia each year.
Migration is the movement of people from one place to another for living or work purposes. In the current time most of the people migrating from poorer country to developed country. The reasons behind migration are availability of jobs and proper utilization of skills, economic benefit, social security etc. But these are the benefits of the migrating person. It is very important for the migrating country that how much people they allow to migrate? Most of the time countries allow migrating into to fill up the job vacancies. In this essay migration to Australia and its impact will be discussed. Australia is a culturally diverse country. Its social security and growing economy are offering the opportunity to migrate into this country. It has been estimated that about 20% of its population are migrants (DIMIA 2003). This is because Australia has trusted and successful immigration policy. Moreover Immigration department of Australian is continuously updating providing scope for the proper skilled people to migrate into and live in the country. This essay will argue that there is just the right number of immigrant coming to Australia each ear in relation to the economic, environmental and political situation of the Australia. The economic benefits from the migrants fall into two categories such as benefits on commonwealth and state government. A study conducted by Access Economics stated that Commonwealth budget gets more benefits from migration than the State budgets. It has been estimated that the benefit from the migrants to State budgets is $1 million/year per 1,000 migrants and it remained constant for last ten years. But the benefits from the migrants on the Commonwealth grown to $7 million/year per 1,000 migrants in last 10
Migration is the movement of people from one place to another for living or work purposes. In the current time most of the people migrating from poorer country to developed country. The reasons behind migration are availability of jobs and proper utilization of skills, economic benefit, social security etc. But these are the benefits of the migrating person. It is very important for the migrating country that how much people they allow to migrate? Most of the time countries allow migrating into to fill up the job vacancies. In this essay migration to Australia and its impact will be discussed. Australia is a culturally diverse country. Its social security and growing economy are offering the opportunity to migrate into this country. It has been estimated that about 20% of its population are migrants (DIMIA 2003). This is because Australia has trusted and successful immigration policy. Moreover Immigration department of Australian is continuously updating providing scope for the proper skilled people to migrate into and live in the country. This essay will argue that there is just the right number of immigrant coming to Australia each ear in relation to the economic, environmental and political situation of the Australia. The economic benefits from the migrants fall into two categories such as benefits on commonwealth and state government. A study conducted by Access Economics stated that Commonwealth budget gets more benefits from migration than the State budgets. It has been estimated that the benefit from the migrants to State budgets is $1 million/year per 1,000 migrants and it remained constant for last ten years. But the benefits from the migrants on the Commonwealth grown to $7 million/year per 1,000 migrants in last 10
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