IMMIGRATION

IMMIGRATION
By Ian Berrocal Azofeifa.

The immigration is a politic topic that has important consequences to the economic and social life of a country. Every year thousands of people travel from a country to another to establish their lives there. Sometimes, these people travel alone, but, in other cases, they do it with their families. For that reason, the country must be prepare to receive all the new people and face all the challenges of this situation. Some causes of the immigration are based in politic conflicts, economical reasons, labor choices or studdy opportunities. Some of the challenges for the countries are the healthy services, housing facilities, education and the lack of employment. Next, I will refer both, the causes and challenges mentioned.

Sometimes people must leave their countries for politic reasons; for example, in Venezuela there is a very turbulent political life because of Chaves’ goverment. He has reduced the civil liberties, and many people feel opressed by him and the military. In other cases, the reasons are economical or based in labor reasons; for example, many nicaraguans come to Costa Rica to improve their own and personal financial situation and to get better life conditions. But, not always immigration has a bad cause, some people travel to study in the universities of other countries and grow up in their professional and work lives.

In the other hand, we find the challenges for the countries that must receive this people. In first place, they must improve the healthy services because immigration is one of the most important causes of new diseases; for example, when the scientifics discovered the AH1N1 many airlines stopped to travel to Mexico, and that sttopped the immigration. Housing facilities is one of the most important challenges, too, because a lot of the people who migrate to another country have no money and then, they have to live in very poor conditions. The last mentioned challenges are education for children and adults and overcome the lack of employment. This countries must consider in their financial situation the necesary resources to face them.

In conclusion, immigration affects all the countries in the world. For politicians, it is important to have in mind that the immigrants are persons and they must be treated with the due respect to their lives and human rights, so they must guarantee them the elementary conditions for a dignified life.