PROBLEMS WITH IMMIGRATION

Problems with Immigration

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Immigration” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Immigration” and its relation with “people coming from different parts of the world”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Problems with Immigration” and tries to gauge its effect on “migrated individuals and families”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “Problems with Immigration” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Immigration” on “the people who are entering the country from other, distinctly different parts of the world”.

Problems with Immigration

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to discuss family migration through the findings of all those individuals who have came forth in order to start afresh, seeking a new life, or simply for the purpose and objective of making themselves earn a living accordingly.

A little scoop

Family-related migration research, both academic and policy oriented, has become relatively marginal since the 1990s and this despite the fact that family migration constitutes one of the main routes of entry to European Union (EU) countries, almost two-thirds of the total migration in the USA and one-third in Canada and Australia. According to Organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD's) International Migration Outlook 2008, 44 per cent of migration to OECD counties in 2008 was family related which includes family reunification and marriage migration such as entries of fiancés and recently married spouses (Fell, 2007).

Two main reasons have been identified in migration literature for this under representation of theoretical and empirical work on family migration and the consideration of family as less significant to the labour market. The first relates to the predominately economic theory focus of migration studies that takes the human capital approach and looks at the economic outcomes of migration based on the individual whereas family constitutes a private space whose activities are not measurable in economic terms. As a result there has been less concern with the non-economic aspects of family migration such as family formation, marriage or quality of life. This concentration on economic aspect of family migration has led observers to debate the rigor of these established theoretical understandings. Second, there has been an increasing interest in the gendered approach of migration and family has been considered as a secondary type of migration where female dependants join the male “primary” migrant (Bauder, 2006).

The topic, however, has recently ...