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Disconnections and Connections in Migration

4 Pages 1089 Words November 2017

This essay will examine the claim that disconnections lead to new connections using the example of migration to provide qualitative and quantitative data as evidence to support this claim. According to Raghuram & Erel (2014 p.131), migration is important as it’s a key aspect of who makes up a population. First, this essay will look at what it meant by the term migration and explore the process including the different approaches to migration. Secondly, it will cover the concepts diaspora and translocalism and thirdly will look at the two-way connection to society in the NHS to do this a variety of information will be used from the connecting lives strand and chapter 4 of DD102 module materials
Trying to define a migrant is difficult because there are different criteria’s used to identify a migrant, although simply put a migrant is a person who moves from one place to another. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS 2013A), a long-term international migrant is someone who intends to migrate for a period of at least one year; with short-term migrants migrating for less than one year Raghuram & Erel (2014 p.133). Some of the criteria’s used to define a migrant are a country of birth; so anyone living in a different country from which they were born. Movement; a person who moves to a country of usual residence for at least a year and citizenship; those who reside in a country without citizenship are considered to be migrants. (Raghuram & Erel 2014 p.134).
As well as different criteria there are also different approaches to migration. The first being push-pull where migration is caused by factors that ‘push’ people away from such as low wages and the factors that ‘pull’ people such as more opportunities for training. The second approach is social, for example, some people move because other family members have moved. A third way of approaching migration is historical. Migration shows us that if we go back far enou...

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