Many people say that migration is linked to
globalization. We have been pondering
this subject in my globalization class and I believe that migration is linked
to globalization. I guess in a sense that migration could be both the cause and
effect of globalization. Migration can also affect things like other countries
government and social classes.
There are different types of migration; the main two are
forced migration and just willingly migrating.
When someone willingly migrates they are usually doing it to better
themselves or to make things easier. One of the biggest reasons in my area for
migrating is the weather. The winter months are very hard on some of the older
people in our area due to large amounts of snow fall, icy roads, and cold
temperatures. Even though most of these people don’t migrate very far for very
long they are still taking their beliefs and culture with them. Another reason
someone might migrate is for more opportunity such as a better job. A person or
a group of people could work for a large company and be offered a promotion and
have to move somewhere else taking their beliefs and culture with them.
The other type of migration is forced migration. This is
migration that is involuntary and is usually a result of war. Like in the movie
we watched (God Grew Tired of Us) the Lost Boys were forced to leave Sudan and
migrate to another place if not they were going to be killed.
Both forced migration and willingly migrating. They are
causes because when these people migrate and take their beliefs and culture
with them they are spreading it around the world. You know this is happening,
because in the movie one of the lost boys said that it was very important that
they still kept their culture and that they didn’t lose it because that is who
they are.
Migration isn’t just a cause of globalization it is also an
effect. This can happen if large amounts of people migrate to a certain area it
could cause conflict when the different cultures mix. Just like in the movie
the war in Sudan was between the Muslim north and the Christian south. This
could happen anywhere, is a group moves to another area they could have
conflict with people and that could cause more migration and then it could just
keep happening.
Migration also affects governments or social classes. When
the lost boys moved to the United States they worked the low paying and low end
jobs and they were the lowest social class. It affects the governments because
these lost boys pressured the government to help them with the war in Sudan.
The government also helped these boys find their family and reunited them.
Without migration, globalization would not be as big as it is today. Because of migration, many cultures have become very widespread. So when people ask me if globalization is linked to migration I will always answer yes.
