In class we watched the movie “God grew Tired of Us” and it showed us the conflict in Sudan and how all of these boys got through it. Globalization and migration are connected in that without migration we would not be able to find the rest of the globe because no one would have left so we would not have even found the entire world.

                Migration by dictionary standards is a noun meaning the process or act of migrating, or a migratory movement. The way I describe it is a person or a group of people leaving there place they are currently living to live in a new area by choice or by force.  Throughout history people have migrated all over the earliest evidence of a human migration was 6,500 years ago when modern humans left Africa and went out to colonize the world. Without this most crucial migration we would be sitting in Africa struggling to survive. When we went out we explored and discovered new things and these things where traded and improved among cultures. That is what globalization is about, and it was possible because of migration.

                The factors that cause migration have been categorized into two factors called push and pull. A push factor is a negative factor in the country or area where the person is leaving from. Examples of this may be violence or war, something that makes people want to leave. A pull factor is the opposite it is a positive factor in the country or area that receives the people. Example would be people from Mexico coming to America for work, which is a pull factor.

                Economic effects of migration are like the effects of medication results may vary.  Migration can cause short term ups and downs and long term can also have ups and downs. Short terms side effects for the country or area gaining people may include but are not limited to lower wages, more people on welfare and unskilled workers. Long term effects for the receiving country or area may be but not limited to population rising and people are not excepting the new comers.

                  Economic effects of migration for the country or area that people leave from can have labor shortages and a lack of skilled laborers. The people who have a skill, say brick masonry would be able to find work in the new place they live and would be more excepted because they are doing a good thing and helping the economy and the country develop.

                When a group of immigrants arrives at their new home they must do one of three things. One is to assimilate and join the other culture leaving the old one behind. They can blend their culture with the new one keeping traditions and celebrating new things. The third is they keep their old culture completely and do not change often shunning them from the people who still lived there. The middle one is the best one because it spreads culture speeding up globalization.

                Some people say they can tell what will happen but certain events are still a mystery. But with a fast rising population that keeps rising faster and faster we can be sure that migration will keep happening. Cities will become too crowded and people will need to leave them. Violence, drugs, and sex trafficking might scare people to leave. None of that is for certain but what is, is that migration is here to stay.