Impact of migration on receiving countries

Migration is a population displacement from their original place to another one, which implies a change of the habitual residence. Migration is a phenomenon present along with the human history. Since the beginning of the humankind, the nomads were people who used to travel long journeys in the search for a better life. Some other cultures or religions have as a referent any kind of migration, for example the exodus of the Jude people from Egypt. In this topic the main reasons are political, economical or natural disasters which move the people to emigrate.
Every reason has different consequences. The economical one has positive reason for the country from which the people emigrate, but it implies an economical dependency. On the other hand, it seen to be there are only negative consequences for the country who receive the immigration, or that is the way how those countries show it to the world. Some groups again the immigration says it increase the unemployment, decrease the salaries, and recharge the social services offered by the state. At the end, every time there is a developed country, it has to deal with the immigration from countries where they do not have the same level of develop.
A good consequence of the immigration is that almost all the immigrants are in the age between 20 and 39 years old. A youngest population means there are more active people than the others side of the population whose are younger than 20 or older than 65 years old. Nevertheless, those people who immigrate are not good enough educated in order to have good jobs; moreover, they have to do the dirty jobs for a lower rate or even a same job for an immigrant mean lower payment. All the bad consequences are reflected in the country’s development which would see how it gets broken. “’Subsidising immigrants’ isn't sufficient, Germany has the right to ‘make demands’ on them” said the chancellor Merkel, referring to the immigrants in Germany.
The most notable consequence is the social or cultural behavior that changes along with immigrants. Most of the countries, in which the number of immigrant is considerable, have separate colonies or group of people with their own cultures and traditions. In those cases they want to keep their own languages, believes, food, and even celebrations; however, some of those traditions are not well accepted in the country they choose. “The country was being made ‘more stupid’ by poorly educated and unproductive Muslim migrants with headscarves”. "This approach has failed, totally," Merkel said, adding that “immigrants should integrate and adopt Germany's culture and values”.
Immigration is always the reason of bad news for a developed country; however, it does not have to be always true. For example, after the Katrina hurricane in New Orleans, immigrants reconstructed the entire city in where most of the native emigrated in search of a safer place to live but; in contrast, those immigrants have been discriminated by federal laws and business practices. In these days where the globalization is everywhere around the globe, the developed countries has to change their rules again the immigrants and stop look at them as a problem. Those countries have to see them as part of the develop they have, as the immigrants have to adopt their rules as the new country in where they live. Without job opportunities there are not immigrants who want to refill those vacant. The dependency between a rich country and poor one always is going to coexist.

Bibliography:
Futuros. Consecuencias económicas de la migración. At http://www.revistafuturos.info/futuros_11/migracion_econ.html. Last access on Sunday October 17, 2010.
Audrey Kauffmann. Merkel says German multi-cultural society has failed. At http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101017/wl_afp/germanymuslimreligionimmigration. Last access on Sunday October 17, 2010.


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