Cause And Reasons: The Major Causes Of Migration

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The main causes of migration are: Political causes, many people who fear persecution and political revenge leave a country to take up residence in another, or at least try to leave, but often can get even lose life when it comes to totalitarian regimes. When people emigrate for political persecution in their own country there is talk of political exiles, as happened in the case of Spaniards fleeing the persecution of the Franco government after the Spanish Civil War. Examples of the latter case it represent Juan David García Bacca and Pablo Vila Dinars well as many others who went to other countries. Socio-economic causes are the fundamental causes in any migration process. In fact, there is a direct relationship between economic development …show more content…

Widespread disasters, the effects of large earthquakes, floods, prolonged droughts, cyclones, tsunamis, epidemics and other both natural disasters and social (or a combination of both, which is much more frequent) have caused major shifts in human beings (we could also consider as forced migration) for all ages, but have been aggravated in recent years by the growth of population and occupation of areas of greatest risk of occurrence of these catastrophes. Immigration remains the most obvious piece of unfinished business between the US and Mexico, for their relations in other aspects have progressed dramatically in recent years. The most obvious result of the Mexican opening has been the continuing economic integration with the United States. Mexico is now the second largest trading partner of the United States, exceeded only by Canada and the flow of foreign direct investment between our countries has grown as fast as trade. The number of Mexicans crossing the border, mostly as temporary visitors, has constantly increased. The movement of goods, services, capital and people has been facilitated by improvements in the infrastructure of roads, airports and telecommunications. In addition, economic reforms have paved the way for …show more content…

While it has failed in the attempt to curb the flow of workers, the government's campaign against US economic migration from Mexico has been an underworld of smuggling, document fraud, and other criminal activities. Responsible for making public policy in the United States face three possible options in response to illegal immigration. One would fall on again. The federal government could build a triple fence 2,000 miles from San Diego to Brownsville and reassign or hire tens of thousands of agents to patrol it. You could send internally thousands of additional government agents to raid businesses, fining employers and hunt down and deport the millions of undocumented immigrants living and working in the United States no matter how deep their ties to their jobs, families and communities. It could force every citizen and non-US citizen to carry a national ID card or to register in a national database as a prior requirement for a living. But that option would impose a high cost in terms of government spending, economic production and

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