Abstract This paper discusses the issue of labormigration, a matter that has become of pressing importance to many Europeans. On the one hand, many European citizens feel that labormigration is vitally important because it allows countries that are suffering from a labor shortage to make up that shortage through foreign workers. The paper further discusses the flip side of this argument, saying that other people are uncomfortable with so many foreign-born workers flooding across their borders. This paper then examines the consequences of labormigration upon towns, communities, countries and even geographic regions like the European Union.
Abstract In this article, the writer explains that labormigration vis-a-vis female domestic labor is the temporary movement of women, predominantly, but not exclusively, from the third world, to another global region wherein they work as servants so as to accumulate capital that they then can return to their families back home in the form of remittances. Besides being a highly gendered phenomenon, some have argued that the aforementioned labormigration renders these women little more than the contemporary "servants of globalization." The writer argues that this both is, and is not, the case. Specifically, the writer maintains that while these women certainly do serve the interests of others and certainly do find themselves performing menial tasks, they do not necessarily face the same burdens as "servants" from previous ages; that is to say, there are legal protections in place for all workers in developed lands and the increased scrutiny now surrounding the phenomenon of third-world labormigration makes it less likely for these women to be taken advantage of. The writer concludes that while it is largely true that domestic laborers are the "servants of (twenty-first century) globalization," one must be careful to avoid associating their plight with the truly harrowing plight of previous generations of servants.
From the Paper "In addition, while the global economy may make it easier for affluent individuals in the developed world to find cheap domestic labor abroad, the highly-integrated global economy also allows domestic laborers alternatives that might not have been available even a generation ago. To wit, if a domestic worker or care-giver is unsatisfied with the state of things in one part of the world, she can utilize the internet, liberalized rules (in most countries) vis-a-vis work visas and citizenship application, and the assistance of mass communication technology that allows for expeditious communication between global networks of similarly-situated workers, to find a position more in keeping with her desires.
"The idea of globalization serving domestic laborers by bringing them into contact with other, similarly-situated individuals through mass communication (even as it also isolates them from loved ones) deserves some further illustration."
Abstract This paper will explore the role labormigration has played in Canada's economic development, and more generally, how it contributes to economic development at large. The study will then shift gears and apply the gained knowledge to the question of whether or not Canada experienced a 'brain drain' between 1914 and 1945.
Abstract The writer of this paper attempts to justify why many Chinese citizens chose to immigrate to America as opposed to other nations, such as England or Germany. This paper utilizes the push-pull theory to provide insights into the Chinese migration to the U.S. The pull-factor represents the attraction to a receiving country, often a major industrialized nation of the first world, by some perceived offering or opportunity. The push-factor entails impelling reasons such as low living standards, lack of economic opportunities, political repression or war, which made the people choose to leave their country of origin. This paper examines the various reasons Chinese citizens chose to leave their country, including China's feudal society that was controlled through traditional roles and responsibilities that were based on age, sex, birth order and social class. Chinese migration to the U.S. started during the 1840s. This paper explains how the American gold rush of the 1850s served as the pull factor, while the economically depressed area of south China served as the push. This paper examines the difficulties the immigrants faced in America, including the inherent cultural differences that led to conflicts between the new immigrants and the Americans. The writer also discusses the various reasons many Chinese immigrated to Hawaii and the Pacific West Coast, in which Chinese immigrants made up a large portion of the labor force.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Immigration History
Conclusion
From the Paper "The Hawaiian government felt it was right to use the workers in the fields but one the contracts were up they did everything in power to keep the Chinese from becoming g full fledged members of the island. This included bringing Japanese to substitute for Chinese as well as using Filipinos for the same purpose. In 1903, Hawaii literally created a law that stipulated that only United States citizens or anyone who was eligible to become a citizen which meant non Asians could become employed in the Hawaiian territory. Metropolitan areas became the sanctuaries for the masses of Chinese immigrants. In San Francisco for example, the notion of a 'Chinatown' implied that Chinese in America were in charge of a world within a world."
Abstract This paper explains that human migration includes immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people. The author points out that, while each cause carries validity, opening the doors to all migrants can cause grave implications for the host country. The paper relates that migrants, specifically those people who have the labor skills, intellect or social and economic status, can contribute to a host country. However, this situation must be balanced with the needs of the migrants in terms of safety, economic opportunity, education, food and shelter, and assimilation.
From the Paper "The framing of the migrants who are refugees or seeking asylum is different from that of legal or illegal immigration, simply my motivation. Political, religious, social membership, and environmental refugees and asylees account for a growing number of people who flee persecution or conflict each year. In comparison to legal or illegal immigrants, refugee and asylum seekers are looked upon with a more compassionate, gentler gaze. And although aiding migrants of such statics can place a strain on economic and natural resources, assisting refugees and asylees can be esteeming for the host country and revered globally."
Tags: boundaries scarcity anti-immigration illegal, labor force dilemmas
Abstract This paper discusses how an increasingly sophisticated global economy has resulted in significantly changing the dynamics of migrant labor. It explains that the effects of globalization on domestic societies and economies has now become a controversial issue. The paper concludes that unless governments and policy makers are able to buttress the forces of globalization with institutions and policies that are able to spread the benefits to the vast majority of the world's population, it is likely that political, social, and labor movements will succeed in reversing the process of globalization.
From the Paper "The United Nations Population Division estimates that there were 175 million people residing outside their country of birth in 2000. This estimate represents a hundred percent increase over the 1975 estimated figure of migrants (Migration News, 2002). Further, if labor force participation rates are applied to UN estimates of migrants by country, it becomes evident that the migration of labor has played a significant role in influencing the upward trend in global migration in the fourth quarter of the twentieth century. For, such an exercise reveals that there were approximately 80 million migrant workers around the globe at the turn of the twentieth century (Migration News, 2004). Although such large numbers of migrant workers is not without historical precedence, it is important to note that an increasingly sophisticated global economy has resulted in significantly changing the dynamics of migrant labor. Indeed, this fact is evident in an analysis that compares and contrasts the traditional causes and factors of migrant labor with the more recent effects of a global world economy."
Abstract This paper explores the migration of African-Americans from the south during the late 19th century and early 20th century and looks at how their migration had social, economic and political effects on the city of Philadelphia.
From the Paper "Philadelphia, in particular, offered African Americans a chance to grow free and "everybody saw Philadelphia as the prototype of what a free African American would look like, and what a free African American would do" (Africans in America). African Americans were tired of the quality of life in the South, stemming from harsh social conditions and unequal treatment. Their desire for a better life prompted them to look to the North as a place to live. The emancipation of the blacks and the end of the Civil War in 1865, opened the doors for the African Americans to act on this move. (Africans in America). "Rural southern blacks began moving to northern industrial cities soon after the end of the Civil War" (Mohl, 1985)."
Abstract The Americas, since their discovery by Europeans, have existed as a destination for groups of people from a wide array of geographic and cultural backgrounds. This paper examines how migration patterns have depended largely upon economic, social, and political factors, both within America and worldwide. It looks at how internal economic conditions demanded the enormous volume of African slaves imported during the first four centuries of European colonization and how, by the 19th century, world events coupled with economic trends facilitated substantial immigration from Eastern Europe.
From the Paper "The slave trade was as ancient as civilization itself by the time the Americas were discovered by Columbus; but as the European powers scrambled to maximize their power and wealth in this new world, slavery took on a new form. Agriculture quickly became the key to acquiring capital and ?in the 17th century it was discovered that sugar cane grew well in the West Indies, but growing it involved a huge number of workers.? Doubtlessly, too few settlers inhabited these lands to generate the workforce colonial powers demanded, so West African traders began to supply a constant flow of kidnapped slaves to the new world?thus, the infamous "middle passage" was born."
Abstract This paper discusses the migration project which involves the introduction of a new channel of business to PC Technical Services, a home computing technical support service. The paper discusses the migration issues, as well as analyzes the outcome of the migration from the point of view of the business and the customer.
Table of Contents:
Project Overview
Management Summary
Introduction
Migration Issues
Technical Specifications
Effect of Migration on Traditional Support Service Channels and Possible Customer Alienation
Customer Education
Costs and Delivery Time-frame
Periodic Updates for Senior Management and Other Stakeholders
Conclusion
Appendix A
From the Paper "PC Technical Services (PTS) provides technical support to customers requiring assistance with their home PCs. This support extends broadly to hardware configuration, software installation and maintenance and connection to the internet. Service is currently provided through a network of trained computer technicians operating from six offices around Australia. Presently, channels of trade include face to face service which involves sending a technician to the customer's residence in order to provide solutions to technical issues and telephone-based support from PTS's Customer Service Call Centre."
This paper discusses the "Field to Factory" museum exhibit and looks at the migration within the United States of southern African Americans in 1915-1940.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, 2005, $ 53.95
Abstract This paper focuses on the National Museum's Field to Factory exhibit, and the Great Migration from the years 1915-1940. It discusses the social elements that existed in the lives of southern African Americans and their reasons to migrate by the thousands to northern lands. The writer further looks at the effects of this migration on the United States, making use of 3 sources of supporting information.
From the Paper "A remarkable statement on the social history of the United States, the Field to Factory Exhibit at the National Museum of American History offers the viewer the opportunity to step briefly back in time and experience elements from the Great Migration of an American people. This period, (1915-1940) is an important span of time for the entire world to consider. While we are taught about the Civil War, slavery, and the Civil Rights Movement, we often fail to comprehend the significant changes that took place in the United States because of the courage of a race that refused to be enslaved forever. This exhibit speaks, through visual and audio means, about the lives of the African American people in the south, during their migration north, and presents evidence about their new lives in the northern United States."
Abstract This essay discusses immigration, immigrants and migration patterns in Canada. The paper goes through historical newspapers from 1891 to 1960 and reports on what they said about immigration, immigrants and migration in Canada. The paper looks at the changing pattern of migration over the seventy year period that the newspaper articles span.
From the Paper "Immigration, Immigrants and Migration Patterns in Canada Canada is a multinational country known for its diversity. For example, in The Regional Geography of Canada Robert M. Bone states, "Canada is a multicultural society with more than 200 ethnic groups recorded in the 2001 census". Most Canadians are so used to this level of diversity that they fail to recognize that it is a relatively recent development. When Canada was a young country it primary culture was extremely xenophobic. This meant that because foreigners were not well liked or widely accepted in Canadian society. This is because the majority of Canadians at this point were of British origin."
This paper examines cultural misconception, reverse colonization and identity affirmation in regards to the Arab World with Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North".
Abstract This paper examines the Arab world as it appears in Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North". The Arab World and its people share a long and harrowing history that has been marked by oppression, war, and foreign intervention and domination. The paper describes historical processes within the Arab world such as European colonization that led to interaction between the Eastern culture and the Western culture. "Season of Migration to the North" is a story about a Sudany who lives in England. This path of cultural exchange, along with the effects that this interaction produced, also symbolizes the central theme of the story.
From the Paper "According to the descendants of Daniel Webster, the term society can be broadly defined as either people in general or a community. Modern sociologists as well as contemporary historians, however, might refute this definition with the argument that it is too simplistic or elementary to adequately express the complicated network represented by this term. Individual society or society in general, they might argue, is a complex concept involving an interlocking framework structured by a wide variety of changing elements and influences. A framework, they might add, that we as humans shape as it simultaneously shapes us as humans."
Tags: East, West, culture, Arab, Sudan, migration, North, South
Abstract Since the Cuban revolution, Cuban-American relations have been strained. The Cuban Adjustment Act (1966) grants refugee status to virtually every Cuban national to arrive in the US. This is a point of contention between the two governments. This paper analyzes Cuban-American migration and the similar case of undocumented refugees from China arriving in Canada in 1999.
Abstract This paper describes details about the "Great Migration." (African Diaspora). It tends to cover all the aspects, the history of migration in various cities such as Harlem, Cleveland, and Cincinnati.
Tags: BOOK REPORTS - BOOK REVIEWS, great migration review
Abstract This paper looks at rural-urban migration patterns in Africa. It examines patterns in South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Zambia and Ghana. The paper looks at the reasons for the migration and its effect on the rural areas and on the cities.
