Politics Case

Migration has been a major source of human survival, adaption and growth across the centuries, 'since human existence, when hunters and gathers roamed as individuals and bands across Africa to Eurasia and then across the Bering Straits to North and South America (Adler 2003:3)'. This was true as early sea voyagers followed coastlines and then crossed oceans to unknown worlds, and as nations colonized new lands in pursuit of power and wealth moving citizens, servants and slaves around the globe also during that great period of migration when Europeans left and identity. Migration "is the changing of the place of adobe permanently or when temporarily, for a considerable duration of time (Lewis 1982:7)", Historically this movement was nomadic, only a few nomadic people have retained this form of lifestyle in modern times. Migration has continued under the form of both voluntary migration within one's region, country, or beyond and involuntary migration (which includes the slave trade, trafficking in human beings and ethnic cleansing). People who migrate into a territory are called immigrants, while at the departure point they are called emigrants. Small populations migrating to develop a territory considered void of settlement depending on historical setting, circumstances and perspective are referred to as settlers or colonists, while populations displaced by immigration and colonization are called refugees.

Issues:

Transfer of Diseases, Population Imbalance, Unfair Distribution of National Wealth, Financial Burden & Financial Burden

Immigrants may bring with them diseases that prevailed in their country, since "disease- causing" may be transferred from one country to another through the immigrants, thus leading to the spread of diseases. To reduce the risk of transfer of diseases, many countries have started carrying out screening of immigrants on their arrival in the country. For example in China, people walk around with masks covering their mouth and nose to protect themselves for contracting viruses, diseases and or infections.

Immigration is often associated with high population density because crowding increases the population density in certain regions and is one of the basic disadvantages of immigration because migration of people from one country to another leads to the crowding in one nation as opposed to the deserting of another, this simple implies an excessive use of the resources of one nation that may lead to imbalance of natural resources. Another issue would be the unfair distribution if national wealth, this is often true because those opposing immigration argue are that the jobs available in the country and the nation's wealth are its property and that allowing immigration implies the distribution of this property among the non-natives or the immigrants, this basically means that people are of the opinion that immigration implies that the distribution of a nation's wealth to those who do not have a right to it also the cost which is associated in the provision