GM AND REFUGEE CRISIS

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What is your local ethnicity?

GLOBAL MIGRATION

Have you experienced migrating from one place to another? If so, what are the reasons for this migration? Did you encounter any difficulties with regards to this migration?  In this lesson, we will discuss the vital role of migration in the development of societies in the contemporary world.

LESSON OBJECTIVES:

• Identify the reasons for the migration of people.

• Analyze the political, economic, cultural, and social factors underlying the global movements of people.

• Discuss the effects of global migration on the economic well-being of states.

Poll

If given the chance, will you relocate to another country?

• NO

• YES

Multiple Choice

Immigrant and migrant are the same thing.

• NOT SURE

• TRUE

• FALSE

MIGRATION

Migration means crossing the boundary of a political or administrative unit for a certain minimum period (Boyle et. al. 1998). It is a result of the integration of local communities and national economies into global relationships.  Migration can be internal or international.

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WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE MIGRATE?

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A migrant is a…

• a person who seeks safety from serious harm in a foreign country and awaits a decision on the application for refugee status under relevant international laws.

• a person who has resided in a foreign country for more than one year irrespective of the causes, voluntary or involuntary, and the means, regular or irregular, used to migrate.

• a person who owing to fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality or political opinion is outside his/her country because s/he is unable to be granted protection in his/her country.

Multiple Choice

An asylum seeker is…

• a person who owing to fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality or political opinion is outside his/her country because s/he is unable to be granted protection in his/her country.

• a person who seeks safety from serious harm in a foreign country and awaits a decision on the application for refugee status under relevant international laws.

• a person who has resided in a foreign country for more than one year irrespective of the causes, voluntary or involuntary, and the means, regular or irregular, used to migrate.

Multiple Choice

A refugee is a…

• a person who seeks safety from serious harm in a foreign country and awaits a decision on the application for refugee status under relevant international laws

• a person who has resided in a foreign country for more than one year irrespective of the causes, voluntary or involuntary, and the means, regular or irregular, used to migrate.

• a person who owing to fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality or political opinion is outside his/her country because s/he is unable to be granted protection in his/her country.

a person who seeks safety from serious harm in a foreign country and awaits a decision on the application for refugee status under relevant international laws.

ASYLUM

SEEKER

a person who has resided in a foreign country for more than one year irrespective of the causes, voluntary or involuntary, and the means, regular or irregular, used to migrate.

MIGRANT

REFUGEE

a person who owing to fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality or political opinion is outside his/her country because s/he is unable to be granted protection in his/her country.

FACTORS OF GLOBAL MIGRATION

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Why do you think migration is an integral part of globalization?

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According to UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees), the main reason for migration is:

• fleeing war and persecution

• seeking religious practice freedom

• seeking better quality of life

REFUGEE CRISIS

By the end of 2017, there were 25.4 million refugee men, women and children registered across the world. 

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WHY DO YOU THINK THE RISING NUMBER OF REFUGEES IS ALARMING?

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After weeks of continued bombings in their

Damascus neighborhood, a Syrian

family fled civil war and g

safety in Turkey.

• immigrant

• refugee

• migrant

• asylum seeker

Multiple Choice

The LGBT youth who fled his home in Shiraz,

Iran, after his father reported him to Iranian

police sought ______ upon arrival in Serbia

because he feared persecution if he returned

home.

• immigrant

• refugee

• migrant

• asylum seeker

Multiple Choice

In 2016, the working population in the

United States was 43.7 million, or about

13.5% of the total population. Three-quarters

of them are in the United States

legally

• immigrant

• refugee

• migrant

• asylum seeker

Multiple Choice

Barely able to afford food for her two children,

the ______ mother from Honduras made the

difficult decision to leave her children with

relatives and make the dangerous journey to

the United States in the hope of making money

to send home to her family.

• immigrant

• refugee

• migrant

• asylum seeker

Multiple Choice

Economic migrants move to other countries because...

• They want a lower cost of living

• They look overseas for better job opportunities.

• There is a conflict in their country.

• They have a lot of money.

OVERSEAS CONTRACTUAL WORKERS

Of the 1.83 million registered overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), 60 percent were female workers who were usually hired for elementary occupations such as cleaning, food preparation, and delivery of goods.

PHILIPPINE

AVERGE

SALARY

P15,200

(1st) Switzerland’s P296,200

(2nd) Luxembourg’s P198,500

(3rd) United States’ P174,000

(5th) Singapore’s P168,900

(6th) Australia’s P164,800

PHILIPPINE

AVERGE

SALARY

P15,200

(49th) Malaysia P41,300

(60th) Thailand P30,700

(80th) Vietnam P20,000