While migration is the broader concept, the types of migration, such as immigration and refugeeism are pointing out related but different aspects. To understand the important points of each concepts, below immigration and refugeeism will be defined and discussed.
Identifying Immigration Conceptually
The concept of immigration refers to people’s international movement from their country of origin to a country other than they were born in or they hold citizenship via other sources (Hatton, 2016; Markaki and Longhi, 2013; United Nations, 2015). At this point mostly, people decide to immigrate for two main reasons.
The first group is personal reasons. In this group, people are motivated to move abroad intrinsically. Among these are, being upset about the current country conditions, like economic unstability, oppresive management style of their state, insufficient education facilities for the children, more attractive job opportunities, social pressure on their ethnic roots. Briefly, these reasons sum up to trying to have better life standards than the current country.
The second group is classified as global reasons. By the intense effect of globalisation, among these are, weakining the effects of state boundaries because of developments in communication technologies and transportation and governmental migration policies enhancing flow of capital (Castles, 2000).