Its great knowing every day we can buy products that are being manufactured in other countries. But do we realize how these products are produced, shipped, packed? Some people including myself don’t think about how these products were done or what it took to make them, we just buy them. Yes we read the tags and they may say “Made in China” or “Made in Japan,” but do we honestly think about it? This brings up the question as to “Why migration and migrant workers are important.”
Migration has evolved greatly throughout the centuries. International migration has a big part in our society and where we live. This is because migrants travel in big groups. It all comes down to how many people travel away and how many people they lose. Migrants tend to leave places because of wars, rise and fall of empires, economic expansion, political changes, and a few other reasons.
Comparing the past to the present migration has had a drastic increase. Migrants are starting to travel all over the world especially to Asia and China because those countries are on the rise. When migrants travel it hurts the other countries because they are losing out on workers who help produce and sell their products.
One major issue that happened in the past was women were not allowed to migrate like the males. The women's duties were to take care of the children and be house wives. This affected the women because the income their husbands brought in was barely enough for them to live off of. Finally when women were allowed to work they were given the worse possible jobs ever. Being a female was a down fall because men were always given the upper hand with the best jobs. Women Migrant Workers usually had poor living conditions and were forced into sexual slavery. That article was something I found really interesting.
Overall migration is going to be a very important aspect in the world and I believe the rich will get richer and the poor will get richer.
I am curious to know which countries are not allowing for migration of women. I do however find it interesting the fact that women migrants are lowering the poverty rate. I think that its awful that women are treated in horrible ways, like sex slavery and can live in horrible conditions. I think the UN's actions to help reduce this is a good start and other countries need to take the first steps needed to help migrant women.
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