Migration in the past and present

Migration in the past and present

1. 1. Migration in the past

   • Mobility is a human’s characteristic. In many ways, the history has shown people's movement from one place to another, even from one continent to another.
   • With the discovery of agriculture, the human groups were becoming sedentary. As the population grew, they needed new territories where to live. Then, great colonization efforts took place increasing the number of inhabitants.

2. 2. Migration and modernity

   • In modernity, in the 16th century, millions of people left Europe to conquer, almost always by force, new territories in America, Africa and Oceania.
   • During industrialization, in the 19th and 20th centuries there were large displacements of people from the countryside to the cities where the factories were.

3. 3. Globalization

   • With globalization, conditions were created for countries to eliminate customs barriers and products and capitals circulate around the world without restrictions, supported by the development of the leading economy and knowledge economy.
     • To this mobility are added at least 740 million people who have permanently changed their residence within their countries.

4. 5. Types of migration

   • For example, there are workers who go from one place to another during harvest times and after a few months they return to their place of residence every year.
   • It is important to establish that if the migrations are voluntary processes if not is called a forced displacement, when wars or disasters it occurs and people leave to another place within your country.

5. 4. Migration in Latin American

   • In general, people from all continents, countries and cultures have come, so Latin America is complexly diverse. It is a continent in movement which experiences internal, intraregional and international migration processes.
   • The current population of Latin America is the result of several migrations that have taken place from the first settlements to the present.

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