martes, 17 de marzo de 2009

MIGRATION AND EXPATRIATES

Migration is understood as the movement of people from one place to another to set their residence in a different country or place for a temporary or permanent time.

There are different types of migration, some examples of these types are: Internal migration (move to a new place in the same state, country or continent); External Migration (move to a new place in a different state, country, etc) ; Emigration (Move to a different country); Inmigration and Population-Transfer.
Expatriates are people who work or live outside their home countries and stablish their residence in a different place from their original one.
There are three types of expatriates; the first one is the Parent Country Nationals and is referred to the people who work in a different country from their own one. The second one is the Host Country Nationals and is referred to a person who works for any organization that has its headquarters located in a different country and the las one is the Third Country Nationals and is referred to a person who is not a citizen of the country where he r she works at.

The factors for leaving a country are divided in two principal groups, the Push group and the Pull group. The push factors are economic, cultural, political and environmental situations that force people to move away to a different place, some examples are lack of jobs in the country, pollution, poor medical care and natural disasters. In the other hand we have also the Pull factors, these ones are also based on the same conditions of the push factors but happend in countries where exists job opportunities, good education and medical services, political and cultural freedom and many other situations.

Not always the migration of a country to another is legal or happends in regular conditions. The irregular immigrants are not counted as people who belong to a country by the governments but there is always a calculation of the % of ilegals in different countries around the world. The United States has the higher % of illegal immigrations in the world, followed by countries like Russia, Germany, Ukraine, France, UK, and many others.
When people leave their countries looking for better opportunities and higher life quality appears what we know as remmitances. Remmitances are all the transfers of money by the immigrants to people who live on their home countries. Countries apply different regulations for these transfers and also include them in their internal economy accounts.

QUESTION: Which are the top ten sending countries to the United States in the last years?




Taken from: http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/countrydata/data.cfm


domingo, 8 de marzo de 2009

MANAGING DIVERSITY ACTIVITY

VALUE CHAIN (GENDER)
Activity/Process: Discussion on the participation of women in sports that are made "only" for men at the University.
Outcome: Good results for EAFIT in tournaments where the University will be represented by women in sports like soccer and ultimate.
Impact: Increase the participation of women in everything. Stoping the chauvinism in the world and demostrate that women are as powerful and strong as men and that we also have the opportunity of develop any activity we like and have exellent and recognizable results.
Value-Added: Reduce the chauvinism and increase the equality in every activity.
VALUE CHAIN (ETHNICITY)
Activity/Process: Promote the relations with foreign students by making integration parties, activities, forums, etc only focused on the exchange students so they can feel they are included in the campus life and will help them to adapt to their new life easily.
Outcome: Improve the cultural relations in EAFIT.
Impact: To make the foreign students feel better and help them to adapt easily to the University.
Value- Added: Teach how to apply the concept of managing diversity and the importance to be open minden in a global world that is based on the relations between people from different cultures and beliefs.