Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Mar. 2010
Person who decides to move from one country to another in search of better job or economic opportunities or in search of peace and harmony
The term emigrant is the adjective that is used to refer to that individual who emigrates, who moves from his country from origin to another, generally with the intention of developing an activity of the labor.
Then, the emigrant, most of the time beset by economic problems or social circumstances unfavorable, you decide to leave your country in search of better living conditions, or failing that, tranquility.
In some way, it could be said that emigration ends where immigration begins, that is, the emigrant at a certain point in the process when he arrives at his destination will become an immigrant.
As we succinctly mentioned above, the reasons why most people leave their country is due to problems. economic, although in fact individuals decide to abandon their place in the world for other and very complex circumstances; sometimes they are complex family situations that decide the person to move away from those problematic family ties; Another reason is usually war conflicts, this cause we are seeing in recent years a lot root of the armed conflicts that develop in some parts of the world and that end up breaking the
peace and social harmony and make people decide to leave their land to seek that tranquility lost in somewhere else, and of course also the other reason is simply to save your own life and that of the family, since staying in those places where the confrontation between sides is certainly bloody can be fatal.The plight of Syrian emigrants
This 2015 has captured the attention around the world the extreme situation experienced by many Syrians as a result of the incursion of the State Islamic in his homeland and that has given way to a very violent war that every day increases the escalation of violence.
The populationcivil terrified, she decides to leave her country with her clothes and her family in order not only to regain peace of mind but to save their lives from daily death threats.
Unfortunately, this situation has generated a very serious problem with this enormous flow of emigrants pouring out of Syria, because they do so in a disorganized and highly precarious.
We have seen the saddest face of this harsh reality recently in the life story of a child of so only four years old, Aylan Kurdi, who drowned when he left Syria with his family in a precarious boat. It turned over in the middle of the trip and Aylan drowned. His body was washed up on the shores of a beach in Turkey and his picture lying lifeless caused a worldwide stupor and of course ended up revealing a tremendous backroom of Syrian emigration.
Main causes of emigration
Now, specifically taking up the causes of emigration, we can list the following: problems related to the standard of living (overcome problems such as unemployment, very low wages in other parts of the world that offer better living conditions), political reasons (anti-democratic political contexts), persecutions within the country (as a consequence of racial, political and religious reasons), civil or international war (The problems of armed confrontations cause forced displacement, for example, during the Second World War was a recurring situation in those countries that were seriously affected by is), environmental reasons (natural disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes).
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