Ashik Kabir
Migration means the movement of people from one place to another. There are a few factors that are answerable for making an individual or a group of people to chose migration for the call for of endurance. One of the most startling topics of today’s world is migration and its consequences. Migration leaves its mark on both the countries, the country that the people are leaving behind and the other country that it shifting its settlement. Migration can be internal when people are changing their places inside the motherland and it is international migration when people are moving from their own country to another country.
Migration can be both legal and illegal. Illegal migration causes divergence between the sending and the receiving countries. It also causes tensions between the inhabitants and the immigrants. People chose migration for various kinds of reasons, those can be- economic migration, social migration , environmental causes or political conflicts. Some people are enthusiastically migrating, some are forced to choose migration as a way to survive. Some people gets the tag of refugee who have left their home in the search of a better living facility and they are not welcomed in another country. Most of the time they are not carrying any of their possessions.
Economic theory states that labour usually moves from low-wages country to high-wage areas. People move to another places mostly to find a apposite work for them and from where they can maximize the highest amount of award for whatever capabilities they have.
In the case of Social migration people trend to move to a place where they can be next to their family or friends and from where they can ensure their collective safety.
When we come to political migration , it focuses on political unrest in the native country which forces the country people to move to another place.
In the Environmental causes the enlisted reasons are natural disasters that force people to search for a safe place where they can expand their settlement.
We all know from economics term capital which contributes in buildings, factories and other necessary equipments always moves from high wages territories to low wages territories. It leads us to another economic module that is outsourcing . Outsourcing in not the movement of jobs from one place to another, it is the movement of capital from one place to another.
Now when we come to wages, we can keep other things constant and state that where there is a large movement of labourers the wages will be declining and where there is a less accumulation of labourers wages are raising in those territories. For example the increase in labour force in Dhaka will decrease the wage of labourers in that place and the additional capital of Chittagong will increase the productivity of worker of that particular place. The additional capital of this city will increase the wages of labourers. When the flow of labourers is lesser then there is very low effect on the wages but when the flow of workers are increasing it will decrease the wages of the workers.
In the case of Mexico and United States, a study shows that how wages are effecting immigration. After the introduction of NAFTA, the trade barriers have reduced and resulted in augmented wages in Mexico. It is very difficult to stop the flow of people to reach for higher wages areas. That is why all the developed nations are already facing a huge sum of illegal migrants . in the 1990’s Japan had a reputation for cheap and shoddy products. But as time went by Japan increased its wages and today Japanese products have the tag of the best quality products. So, this implies the more the capital flows to a territory, the more will be production and eventually it will increase the wages of that area and that will attract more and more migrants to the area.
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