We see a big problem with migration all around the world. Around 200 million people around the world live outside of their home countries for at least a year. Many people migrate to find better working conditions and higher paid jobs as well as a better life for their families. We see many people coming to the U.S especially because of the so called "American Dream". What many people don't know is they are still treated unfairly. Migration has been happening ever since people arrived on this planet whether it be the Vikings sailing across the sea or the slave trade of africans brought from West Africa to the U.S.
International migrants who come into the U.S are apart of the $60 billion brought in by big name U.S companies. Richer countries bringing in these migrant workers are making more money than ever before, hence the title "The Rich Get Richer". This doesn't effect everyone in a good way, even though poorer countries where the migrants come from are getting more money from the migrants who are making money in the more developed countries, it is still leaving people without homes. Usually the poorer countries tend to spend their money on building schools, which isn't a bad thing, but people are still left without homes.
Climate change is a big risk factor to migration and our planet. Global warming and climate change will force people of warmer nations to move out into less warm countries creating overpopulation. The warmer countries will soon be too warm to live in, but there really isn't enough space for other people living in those countries to all move to different places around the world. "It is difficult to predict whether the movement will mainly be internal or cross-border, or temporary or permanent."(Eitzen and Zinn, 51) No matter where people go there will always be a conflict whether people want them in their country, if there is room, or enough resources to support that many people.
The reading that I found most interesting was in the E and Z chapter called "Bound for discussion" It talks about a man named Intajak who is trying to make more money for his family back home. Intajak is a migrant worker who is told he has to pay $11,700 upfront for him to work. who pays to work? He is offered a job in the U.S where he was told he be able to work steady hours for 3 years and would be given enough money to support his family. Intajak began to realize that the contract he had signed back in Bangkok guaranteed nothing like three years of steady employment. Rather, he was eligible to work as many hours as global saw fit to give him, for up to three years- as long as Global chose to renew his visa." (Eitzen and Zinn, 60) this shows the hard working conditions U.S companies put migrants in and how it effects people around the world. We tend to not think about others across the world and only want to benefit ourselves. Realizing the hard conditions that the U.S is putting migrant workers in should show that it isn't right for people to be mis treated. We need to make this a bigger deal to stop companies who are underpaying their workers and not giving them the same working conditions that U.S citizens have.
