International migration is caused by four factors including economic pressures; social networks and connections between migrant-sending and receiving countries; immigrant admissions and immigration control policies; cultural perceptions people in developing countries have about immigration and First World immigrant-receiving countries. Evaluating the influence of these four factors on the state of affairs with migration in the world, it appears that economic pressure is the most important among all the other factors. Social networks and connections between migrant-sending and receiving countries and cultural perceptions people in developing countries have about immigration and First World immigrant-receiving countries are secondary factors and the least influential factor in immigrant admissions and immigration control policies.
Reflecting on the whole course of recorded human history, numerous cases of migration can be identified. The major factor behind all of them is the economical factor. People always wanted to find new and better means to provide for their families and improve their welfare. In addition, under the influence of different historical developments, people lost the sources of their incomes in certain locations which affected their decision to leave the territory for a better one where they could solve their economical problems. This factor’s importance is also explained by modern economical phenomena. When there is a shortage in the labor force in some countries, and the excess of it in other courtiers, people find convenient ways to move to improve their economic conditions.
Social networks and connections between migrant-sending and receiving countries are the second important factor. People move to the lands where they have social connections. There is no doubt about the fact that it is much easier for immigrants to find their place in the new country if they have relatives or friends there who may support them during their first months in the new country.
Cultural perceptions people in developing countries have about immigration and First World immigrant receiving countries are secondary factors is the third important factor causing migration. As soon as humanity developed means to spread information about the living conditions in different lands, the flows of immigrants began flooding the lands that were described as an oasis of a better life. This phenomenon is observed beginning from the great migration, and nowadays it is also well-spread in the world.
Finally, immigrant admissions and immigration control policies appear to me as the least important factor of migration. When people are at stake of economical disaster they do not think of immigrant admissions and migration control policies. Rather, they think of ways of avoiding them. Thus, this factor is the least important among all of the other migration factors discussed above.
In conclusion, it should be stated that among all the other important migration factors, economical factor is always the most significant. When people are not able to satisfy their basic needs in having food to eat, and shelter to live in, their only concern is to find ways to improve the state of affairs. As the recorded human history shows, people constantly move to the territories where they find better opportunities. In addition, the other two important factors are social networks and connections between migrant sending and receiving countries, and cultural perceptions people in developing countries have about immigration and First World immigrant receiving countries are secondary factors. The least important factor is immigrant admissions and immigration control policies.