Global Migration

Forms of movement

Immigration

Legal immigrants

Refugees

Asylum seekers

Irregular immigrants

“those who enter a country without proper authorization or who have violated the terms of stay of the authorization they hold, including by overstaying.”

Illegal, undocumented, unauthorized

Immigration Motivations and Functions

Push factors

Motives to leave a political jurisdiction

Improve one's living conditions by relocation

Avoid conflict or discrimination

Promise of materially better life

Pull factors

Positive attributes to attract immigrants to different destinations

Job seeking

The Human Tragedy Factor

Demographic

Developing to developed world

Aging populations to developed world

Political

Violence

US-Mexican Border Problem

Nature of the border

Very long and difficult frontier to "seal"

World's only direct land border between the developed and developing worlds.

Volume and accompanying complexity of the problem

High number of irregular immigrants

Economic immigrants

Criminal immigrants

European Problem

Terrorism

Brexit