+1 862 207 3288 Although immigration is not a new phenomenon, it is one that seems to be accelerating as part of global integration. Immigration can be defined as the movement of people into one country from another for the purpose of settlement (Giddens 2001).
Worldwide migration patterns can be seen as one reflection of the rapidly changing economic, political and cultural ties between countries.
Immigration has become fairly widespread in the 20th century, partly because of increasingly easy modes of transport over long distances and between countries. It has been estimated that the worlds migrant population in 1990 was more than 80 million people, 20 million of whom were refugees. This number appears to be on the increase prompting some scholars to label this the age of migration (Giddens 2001). There are three broad types of migrant economic, illegal and asylum seekers. In Britain toda…(short extract)
