2. Definition
According to international organization" no universally accepted definition
for emigration exists.
The term migrant was usually understood to cover all cases where the
decision to migrate was taken freely by the individual concerned for
reasons of "personal convenience" and without intervention of an external
compelling factor; it therefore applied to persons, and family members,
moving to another country or region to better their material or social
conditions and improve the prospect for themselves or their family.
3.
4. Job migration is a term that has gained
widespread use in the recent years and although
it means relocation of jobs from one
geographical area to another, it has come to
symbolize the migration or relocation of jobs to
other countries In most situations jobs are
moved from one location to another, or to
multiple other locations, because of changes in
one or many of the following: supply and demand
for products and services, business conditions,
labor markets, government policies, competition,
environmental conditions, local business costs,
technological obsolescence,
5. Job migration must not lead to
a rise in unemployment, if
national labour markets are
flexible enough. Whether the
native population can expect
gains or losses from
immigration depends, among
other things, on the size and the
structure of the immigration
flow and the labour market
institutions in the receiving
countries.
6. Many UK call center jobs
are getting relocated to
India. George Monist
sees this as a portent to
massive middle class job
losses. Jeremy Seabrook
claims that India and it's
yuppies will not
necessarily benefit for
various reasons
including the high burn
out rate in this type of
job. The cyber serfs of
California the are now
being replaced by
cybercoolies. As far as
call center work is
concerned many of the
jobs could later be
automated.
7. The internet has changed
office topology. In the UK
even quite small charity
organizations may have a
great beaurocracy.
Parkinson's Law applies:
pointless work absorbs
more and more people.
Health care becomes a
market for rich suppliers
to charge rip off prices
while physicians act as
gate keepers to determine
who gets which scarce
resources.
8. Some people want to see a
repressive cultures to be
broken up, if necessary by
force. This is the doctrine of
'failed states' whereby US
imperialism may rampaged
unchecked. That is also the
wish of many revolutionaries.
Of course the failed states are
those places where barbarity
is given free reign
9. At the moment, the
likely disruption to
patterns of employment
is surely being
exaggerated. The actual
and prospective
migration of service-
sector jobs is small, and
likely to remain so,
compared with the
background level of job
creation and destruction
in an economy with as
much vitality as
America's.
10. The movement of jobs
to the developing
countries does not alter
the overall level of
employment in the
advanced economies;
however, the pattern of
employment, to be
sure, does change. In
the aggregate, this is
desirable, just as it is
desirable that labour-
saving technological
progress should change
the pattern of
employment.
11. The new jobs
migration, while
raising no new
issues of
principle, may
indeed involve
bigger political
and economic
strains than
earlier bursts of
expanding trade.
Workers in
manufacturing
had long
understood that
they were
exposed to the
challenge of
competition from
overseas.
