Immigration Migration

Migration in the process that people leave their home to move to other countries in groups or individual for many reasons. Throughout human history, many people have left the place where they were born with the hope of a better life for themselves in the new land, legal immigration of people across the globe have risen 50% in the last 25 years; with 3.2% of the world population - 232 million people are migrants. In the world history, the two largest flows of migration are to Europe and to North America, especially United States. Specifically, one immigration flow is to US from Mexico, Asia and Europe; the rest flow is to Europe from Africa.

The US has the largest number of immigrants in the world with 48 million people, representing 20% of

They are mainly directed to the United States, there are about 11 million Mexican live in the US. Migration is very difficult and hazardous for those who want enter to the US illegally across the border between US and Mexico. Most of immigrants came to US seeking economic opportunities, they are starving in their homeland so they have to choose for stay or take a risk in another country. Most Europeans moved to United States in two waves: at the time from 1820 to 1920, these people leaved to finding freedom and religious issues; and immigrants in the 20th century leaving under poor economic condition. Nowadays, those who moved into the US from Europe mostly are young people, who are proficient in English and have high level of education as well. They also tended to work in high-skilled jobs and listed in second class in US. For the wave from Asian, migration expanded altogether after the 1965 Immigration Act adjusted. At first, in order to reduce immigrant waves from Asian the US government had some preferences for

Compare with the immigration in United States, which is an ideal destination for all of people in the world; most immigrants in Europe are from Africa and Asia. One of the first immigration waves come to Europe is from African slave trading. At the end of the 18th century when the trading of African slaves had stopped, it is very few foreign people migrated to Europe. In the 19th century, the number of Europeans moved to another continent like America increasing a lot while there are no immigration activities into Europe. Up to two-third of African in Europe from North Africa like Algeria, Morocco and from Western Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal) are increasing. Germany and France have the biggest immigrants from Africa because of work migration and geographic routes. There are also many reasons lead to the volume of migration to Europe raised. The first reason is that most of Allies soldiers choose to stay in Europe permanent include the army from West Africa, Asia who work for the Allies. Second, after the World War II, a lot of European die for the war, this lead to lacking of people for labor force, so the European government have to allow citizen from other countries come to stay and work for their industry, beginning from British then France and others. Moreover, many countries in Europe accepted labor from Africa and Asian, which are not belong to