Beyond Push And Pull Factors

Question 1

What is the meaning begind the statement “migration is part of the human condition”?

Answer 1

It means migration has always beeb present in the lives of humans. Humans wandered out of Africa 50 000 years ago, and still wanders all over the world today, across national boarders

Question 2

Who came up with the pull-push model, and when?

Answer 2

George Ernest Ravenstein in 1889

Question 3

Who came up with the theory of assimilation?

Answer 3

Robert E. Park

Question 4

What is assimilation?

Answer 4

Migrants lose their original traits and get absorbed into the receiving society

Question 5

What is the difference between uprootes and transnational?

Answer 5

Uprooted: someone ripped away from their homeland, losing all ties and ends up in a receiving society

Transnational: someone who still has connection to their homeland and the new society

Question 6

What are the reasons for transnationalism today?

Answer 6

1. Development of the digital world, distance between homeland and receiving society is drastically reduced
2. Racism from receiving countries leads to isolation from the new culture
3. Migraters loyalty and ties with both the host country and homeland as a result of nation-building

Question 7

What 3 trends shows a new pattern of migration, according to Khalid Koser?

Answer 7

1. Proportion of women migrating has increased rapidly because of extension of right for family reunion, gender-selective jobs and maid trade
2. The blurring of traditional distinction between countries of origin, transit, destination
3. Temporary migration has become much more important (The scope of it)

Question 8

What are transmigrants?

Answer 8

Immigrants whose daily life depend on multiple and constant interconnections across international boarders and whose public identities are configured in relationship to more than one nation-state

Question 9

What is so paradoxical with the Age of Transnationalism?

Answer 9

It comes at the same time as heightening nationalism

Question 10

Who wrote “International Migration” and what’s it about?

Answer 10

Khalid Koser: it’s a brief history of migration and what migration is about

Question 11

Who wrote “From immigrant to transmigrant: theorizing transnational migration” and what’s it about?

Answer 11

Nina Glick Schiller, Linda Basch and Cristina Szanton Blanc: it’s about the theory of transmigration and understanding migration through transmigration