What are the potential risks and benefi
What are the potential risks and benefits of migration for European states and societies?
Migration has been in existence since humans appeared in the world. However our forbearers had different purposes for moving from one location to another than the contemporary humans. Their reasons for leaving a territory were changing climate or infertile soil1. The motivational factors for modern migration differ from that. They are in tight correspondence with globalization. Through this phenomenon there is greater global integration among countries, which created a more flexible flow of labour, therefore the opportunities for international migration highly increased and altered in form2. Globalization created a greater income gap between countries, therefore in poor states the situation can be really desperate, especially compared to the condition in the industrial, developed territories. People from impoverished states seek to escape their home and migrate to somewhere else and at the same time as a result of economic changes the labour market requires more forces. Since the development of the European Union, the migration in this continent increased. We can observe migration from Central and Eastern European Countries to the west part of the continent, but there is also migration from high and dry territories from all over the globe to Europe. There is also internal migration, which mostly means movement from the countryside to the town. This essay will explore the benefits and continuing challenges of immigration within Europe, regarding both internal migration as well as the increasing risks of non-European citizens into Europe states and societies.
Presently Europe gives home to 56.1 million migrants and it is predicted that migrant population will increase in the coming decades3. Since the influx of foreign settlers shows an upward trend in Europe, the governments of the different countries had to carefully reconsider their immigration policies. The income of
Migration has been in existence since humans appeared in the world. However our forbearers had different purposes for moving from one location to another than the contemporary humans. Their reasons for leaving a territory were changing climate or infertile soil1. The motivational factors for modern migration differ from that. They are in tight correspondence with globalization. Through this phenomenon there is greater global integration among countries, which created a more flexible flow of labour, therefore the opportunities for international migration highly increased and altered in form2. Globalization created a greater income gap between countries, therefore in poor states the situation can be really desperate, especially compared to the condition in the industrial, developed territories. People from impoverished states seek to escape their home and migrate to somewhere else and at the same time as a result of economic changes the labour market requires more forces. Since the development of the European Union, the migration in this continent increased. We can observe migration from Central and Eastern European Countries to the west part of the continent, but there is also migration from high and dry territories from all over the globe to Europe. There is also internal migration, which mostly means movement from the countryside to the town. This essay will explore the benefits and continuing challenges of immigration within Europe, regarding both internal migration as well as the increasing risks of non-European citizens into Europe states and societies.
Presently Europe gives home to 56.1 million migrants and it is predicted that migrant population will increase in the coming decades3. Since the influx of foreign settlers shows an upward trend in Europe, the governments of the different countries had to carefully reconsider their immigration policies. The income of
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