Expatriates and migrant workers

The presentation about expatriates and migrant workers was a really great oportunity to get an approach of the current situation and understanding of the topic which concerns  to the dynamic of globalization in our days as a reality that urges to be analized.

as one of the speaker said, the definition of the topic is basically "the movement of people from one place in the world to another for the purpose of taking up permanent or semipermanent residence, usually across a political boundary."

there are several kinds of migration like the internal migrat., external migra., immigration and emigration, population transfer,  impelled migration, step migration, chain migration, return migration and seasonal migration.

There were also described the people that decide to migrate.

How the cultural shock of the migration can affects inhabitants of a nation?

It is not a secret that the migration affects the way of lives of the nationals of a country in the way that alter the situation in economic terms, cultural terms,  political terms and  social terms.

In fact there are evidences that the situation can adress the suicide by the migrants esentially because of the abandon suffered.

references:

Borges, G., Breslau, J., Su, M., Miller, M., Medina-Mora, M., & Aguilar-Gaxiola, S. (2009, April). Immigration and Suicidal Behavior Among Mexicans and Mexican Americans. American Journal of Public Health, 99(4), 728-733. Retrieved April 9, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.