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Global Migration

Migrants contribute to human capital development and boost the working-age population in receiving countries. However, integration of migrants is challenging for states as it requires acknowledging that many will not return home and should be given social rights like inclusion and cohesion. Additionally, portraying migrants as "the other" can prompt xenophobia and racism, as media discourse emphasizes differences between local populations and migrants, influencing citizens to perceive migrants as threats who disrupt habits or take jobs.

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Global Migration

Migrants contribute to human capital development and boost the working-age population in receiving countries. However, integration of migrants is challenging for states as it requires acknowledging that many will not return home and should be given social rights like inclusion and cohesion. Additionally, portraying migrants as "the other" can prompt xenophobia and racism, as media discourse emphasizes differences between local populations and migrants, influencing citizens to perceive migrants as threats who disrupt habits or take jobs.

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GLOBAL MIGRATION

1. Why are migrants mostly beneficial for receiving countries?


- Migrants are beneficial for receiving countries because they contribute to human capital;
development and they boosts the working-age population. Migrants also bring business. With
almost no financial or socio capital, they are able to use their human capital to set up businesses.

2. What are the benefits and detriments of economic dependent on migrant remittances?
- A remittance is a transfer of money, often by a foreign worker to an individual in their home
country. Money sent home by migrants competes with international aid as one of the largest
financial inflows to developing countries. Remittances can have both positive and negative effects
on the economy’s recipient countries. Here are some of its benefits and detriments on the
economy:
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o Pros
▪ The transfers provide a country’s economy with foreign currency, help finance
imports, improve the balance of payments in its international accounts, and
increase national income.
▪ Remittances can increase the sell-being of receiving household by smoothing
consumption and improving living conditions.
▪ Remittances can ease the credit constraints of unbanked households in poor rural
areas, facilitate asset accumulation and business investments, promote financial
literacy, and reduce poverty.
▪ It can facilitate the accumulation of human capital by making possible improved
sanitary conditions, healthier lifestyle, proper healthcare, and greater
educational attainment.
o Cons
▪ Remittances can reduce labor supply and create a culture of dependency that
inhibits economic growth.
▪ Remittances can increase the consumption of nontradable goods, raise their
prices, appreciate the real exchange rate, and decrease exports, thus damaging
the receiving country’s competitiveness in the world markets.
▪ Remittances can be curtailed, along with international migration, by escalating
anti-immigrant sentiment and tougher enforcement practices in host countries,
including the US and many Europe and the Gulf region.

3. Why integration a challenging issue for states/country?


- Integration is the delicate, critical transition of the migrant from outsider to insider – the process
by which migrants become a part of their new community. Integration is difficult for states
because it exposes a truth many are reluctant to acknowledge publicly. Despite the
over\whelming international focus ion return and reintegration of migrants back into their home
communities, many migrants will not, often cannot – go home. They are, however, should be
given the rights including social inclusion and social cohesion. Soci8al inclusion refers to migrants’
inclusion and full economic, social, cultural, and political participat5ion in host communities.
Social cohesion refers to concepts such as anti-discrimination, countering xenophobia and
promoting mutual understanding.

4. How do migrants prompt xenophobia and racism in receiving countries?


- Migrants are portrayed as “the other’. The media discourse has placed much stress on the
distinction between “us” and “them” (the migrants) as different. Such categorization influence
the attitude of the citizens who perceived migrants as threat, portraying them as invaders who
disrupt the habits of the local population, are an economic burden, or the take away “their jobs’
etc.

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