Globalization and Migration
Migration is when you leave your country or area to go to
another. With migration, there are push and pull factors that affect the choice
of when you migration. Some factors that can push you to migrate are, if the
area you are living in has a lack of jobs or is in poverty. Some reasons people are pushed to migrate is
due to natural disasters, so they have to leave the area that was in the
disaster radius to have somewhere to live and find a new job. Pull factors in
migrating could be better living conditions, better paying jobs and more
freedoms.
The Lost Boys of Sudan were both pushed and pulled to
migrate. The reason the Lost Boys of Sudan were pushed to migrate from Sudan was
because of the civil war that was going on in the country. If they would not
leave then they would have been killed by the military that was ordered to kill
all young boys in Sudan. So they walked to Ethiopia, then to Kenya since Kenya
had refugee camps for the people that had to leave Sudan. After being in Kenya
for a couple of years, America offered some Lost Boys from Sudan to come to America
and start new lives there. This offer of migration was a pull factor. Without
globalization these countries that helped out The Lost Boys would have never knew
that this civil war in Sudan was going on. The Lost Boys would not have been
able to come to American to start a new life and Kenya would not have refugee
camps for them without globalization.
When the Lost Boys came to America, they were coming to a new
culture and had to change how they do things while still showing their own
culture. With them coming to America, it shows other people a new culture from
a different country, which allows us to learn new foods and new ways that
things are celebrated.
So with globalization and migration it helped the Lost Boys
when their country was in civil war. It allowed them to go to another country
that would help them out in giving them a new place to live and starting a new
life. Globalization affects everything and in some cases, like this, it is a
good thing.
