Human Migration, Immigration & Emmigration Barriers

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Geography Assignment

Legal barriers: Legal barriers to immigration are barriers that make it hard to migrate to the country, and laws that make it hard to make money once in the country. A legal barrier to migration is when the country lowers the amount of money that a person can make there. This is an important factor that people have to consider when deciding where to migrate to. If they would make only a small amount of money more than where they currently are, the cost of the journey might not be worth it. The laws of the country only permit people with certain characteristics into the country. For example, to immigrate into Canada, the person’s education, health, age, and whether or not they are fluent in the language, are all taken into consideration when they apply for immigration. For people who immigrate into a country illegally, if the police find out, they could easily be deported back to their country. Another problem for illegal immigrants is that a lot of companies don’t hire them, so they must settle for low-wage jobs.

Physical barriers: There are several physical barriers that people wishing to migrate have to take into account. Some are mountains, seas, rivers, oceans, deserts, and other dangerous natural barriers. There are also several man-made barriers, such as electrical fences. Barriers such as oceans have been reduced by air-travel. For example, many people use air planes to go from one country to another. The problem with this is that most developing countries have little or no access to airplanes. Therefore, people try to use methods such as boats and ships, but many drown or become sick on these long trips. Mountains can also be overcome by airplanes, since flying over or around a mountain is easy by air. However, as I stated above, few people have admission to an airplane. The more dangerous solution is to go around or even climb over the mountain, but there are risks of injury and people may run out of food. Injuries are dangerous when you are up on a cold mountain, and you won’t have a doctor so far away from civilization. Electrical fences are very dangerous, and hard to get through. A way that asylum seekers and illegal immigrants get in is to bribe the guards at the border, use illegal documents, or get smuggled in. People who get smuggled in usually have to pay the smugglers or work for them until their debt is paid off.