By Denver Kunaka, Updated November 11, 2020
Table of ContentsMigration has positive and negative impacts to both source and receiving area.
Positive Impacts
| Source | Receiving |
|---|
| Resources are relieved | Skill and Knowledge |
| Poverty and crime is lessened | Source of labour |
| Reduces Unemployment | Migrants willing to work for low wages or in unpleasant environment (cheap labour) |
| Money received from migrants to home country (remittances) | New cultures |
| Death rates fall | Increases GDP |
| Decision making is easier |
Negative Impacts
| Source | Receiving |
|---|
| Deprived Skill and Knowledge ( brain drain) | Strain on resources and food |
| GDP falls as most labour is transferred to receiving region | Growth of shanties & improper houses |
| Educated people leave | Crime increases |
| Elderly people left behind | Racial tensions e.g Xenophobia, genocide |
| Services deteriorate | Services are overcrowded |
| Push local people out of jobs | |
| Birth rates decrease | High birth rates |
| Diseases and poverty |
| Money wasted to help the poor & less privileged. |
| Decision making is difficult |
