The Role Of Migration In The Society Academic Writing (Essay Sample)

EXODUS: MIGRATION DIVERFISIFYING OUR WORLDOuma WendyBook review, critiques, argumentsOctober, 23rd, 2016
Exodus: How migration is changing our world, is a book written by the economist Paul Collier,(1) he focuses the way migration is affecting the immigrants and both the countries where the immigrants are from and heading to. He also talks about the results that this migration has on the development economics as well as the struggle to put an end to poverty. This book was published by Oxford University Press. His book is focused on some of the major challenges that are caused by the migration of the nexus and effects of multiculturalism. The goes ahead to explain that the major drawback caused by migration is brain drain.
Book is sensible and voices out about humanity though it is posed as highly toxic. Collier focuses on the major setbacks of poverty. He goes ahead to explain to readers how the migration rates strives to balance the benefits between the countries sending its people and the receiving countries as well as the migrants. In his book, he says that beyond some limit, the social and economic results of migration stops to be beneficial. This means that, the migration policies should be used in a constructive manner to ensure that optimal migration rates are achieved. The question is not whether or not the migration is good or bad but to what level should it be considered an economic or a social ill.
Collier tells us that the factors leading to migration are: the gap created by the width of income, the wider the gap the higher rate of migration from the low income earning countries to the high income earners. Another economic factor is the level of a country’s income, a country that has a low income has so many emigrants.
[Collier, Paul. Exodus: How Migration is changing Our World. Oxford University,Press. 2013]
The risk Collier discusses that the major reasons for migration are based on the local policies of the country that hosts the emigrants. in order to tackle the immigration issues can be done by construction a wall around the state welfare rather than around the country. The immigrants have a wrong notion of multiculturalism. The bigger and more established a diaspora is the slower the rate of assimilation of the immigrants into the culture of the indigenous country. Collier tries to depict the difference between the migrants and the settlers. The migrants will often use their own native language and not the language from the cost county. Furthermore the migrants will more often than not, reject the cultural practices and social norms in the host country, and to some extent reject the laws found in the host countries. (The Islamic immigrants in Europe demand for sharia laws.)
Collier in his book uses the work of the social scientist, Robert Putman that says that the high rate of immigrants in a society reduces the trust levels amongst the immigrants and the local population and also lowers trust levels among the local people. And a high trust level causes a higher rate of absorption. A low trust level causes a low absorption rate and therefore rising diaspora. The immigrants therefore turn into settlers. Colliers discussion of dynamics of the diaspora is made stronger by the case for the borders that are open by reduction of fears of over swamping: a high level of migration could take place as the current level of migration is still manageable and sufficiently low.
[Collier, Paul. Exodus: How Migration is changing Our World. Oxford University, Press. 2013] ...