Immigration1

What is immigrant'''

・the movement of people into the country

Why do people emigrate

・economic migration - moving to find work or follow a particular career path ・social migration - moving somewhere for a better quality of life or to be closer to family or friends ・political migration - moving to escape political persecution or war ・environmental causes of migration include natural disasters such as flooding

How is immigration good

• Globalization lets countries do what they can do best. If, for example, you buy cheap steel from another country you don’t have to make your own  steel. You can focus on computers or other things. • Globalization gives you a larger market. You can sell more goods and make more money. You can create more jobs. • Consumers also profit from globalization. Products become cheaper and you can get new goods more quickly.

How is immigration bad

• Globalization causes unemployment in industrialized countries because  firms move their  factories to places where they can get cheaper workers. • Globalization may lead to more  environmental problems. A company may want to build factories in other countries because  environmental laws are not as  strict as they are at home. Poor countries in the Third World may have to cut down more trees so that they can sell wood to richer countries. • Globalization can lead to financial problems. In the 1970s and 80s countries like Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia or Brazil got a lot of money from investors who hoped they could build up new  businesses there. These new companies often didn’t work, so they had to close down and investors  pulled out their money. • Some of the poorest countries in the world, especially in Africa, may get even poorer. Their population is not as educated as in  developed countries and they don’t have the new technology that we do. • Human, animal and plant diseases can  spread more quickly through globalization.