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Summary: Why Immigration Matters

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Why immigration matters? according to Koser ” there are more international immigrants today than ever before, and their number is certain to increase for the foreseeable future” (P 1). For instance, the united nation’s recent statistic shows in 2013, 232 million people, or 3.2 per cent of the world’s population, are international immigrants, compared with 175 million in 2000 and 154 million in 1990. Provided that, why people take the risk and the expense to immigrate? Or in other words, why people immigrate in the first place? according to Koser, immigrants are people who are willing to take the risk of leaving their homes in order to create new opportunities for themselves and their children (P 10). Similarly, according to Schwab, the …show more content…

Whereas the push-factors drive immigrants out of their countries of origin, the pull-factors are responsible for directing where these immigrants end up (Schwab, P 10). On one hand, the push-factors to immigrate for many people are economic hardship, poor living conditions, and political reasons. The most significant reason that drives immigrants to leave their countries is economic hardship. In other words, few opportunities existed in the immigrants countries which lead them to immigrate for better jobs and better lifestyles . For instance, according to Schwab “The motivation for emigrating from the various countries Mexico, Pakistan, Ghana, and Vietnam was economic" (P …show more content…

For instance, many immigrants send money to their families at home either by formal channels, which is the banking systems, or by informal channels such as sending cash with relatives or friends who return home. According to Koser “in the developing countries remittances are the most important source of external funding after corporate investments, and they amount to almost three times the value of donations through development assistance and charity”( P 43). In addition, according to statistics in 2004, the top three remittance receiving countries were Mexico(US$16 billion), India (US$9.9 billion), and the Philippines(US$8.5 billion) (Koser, P 44). Consequently, the money sent home by immigrants can help the people in the poorest countries. Furthermore, immigrants not only send money to their countries of origin, but also they transmit new ideas, social and cultural practices, and even local investments. Immigrants can also contribute to the media in their countries of origin. Most importantly, immigrants can always invest in their countries. According to Yang , some immigrants choose to make an entrepreneurial investment at the minimum ;for instance, they work overseas only until they have saved the minimum investment level, after which they return home immediately to invest (P 7). As a consequence, those immigrants return home in order to invest or to establish small

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