Today, many scholars carry out research on international migration in most of the academic fields such as geography, demography, ethnography, anthropology, political sciences, law and sociology. Forced migration, a subcategory of international migration, constitutes a current process of global social transformation drastically growing due to both security and political concerns accompanied by human rights breaches in the countries of origin. In this article, I portray international migration and forced migration relying on the latest literature. I also underline two important features within the latter: asylum seeking and human smuggling. Then, I formulate my key research question as follows: Does distance matter for all categories of people on the move? To answer this question, I analyse migration data from the United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs for Italy from Southern Europe and Lebanon from Western Asia, as two destination countries both bordered by the Mediterranean Sea. Last, I conclude with the notion that geographical proximity matters more in the case of people seeking protection in Lebanon; whereas, in Italy, it matters less since economically motivated migration prevails.

International migration seen from a Mediterranean perspective / AL RAHI, Mireille. - ELETTRONICO. - (2017), pp. 1-14.

International migration seen from a Mediterranean perspective

AL RAHI, MIREILLE
2017

Abstract

Today, many scholars carry out research on international migration in most of the academic fields such as geography, demography, ethnography, anthropology, political sciences, law and sociology. Forced migration, a subcategory of international migration, constitutes a current process of global social transformation drastically growing due to both security and political concerns accompanied by human rights breaches in the countries of origin. In this article, I portray international migration and forced migration relying on the latest literature. I also underline two important features within the latter: asylum seeking and human smuggling. Then, I formulate my key research question as follows: Does distance matter for all categories of people on the move? To answer this question, I analyse migration data from the United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs for Italy from Southern Europe and Lebanon from Western Asia, as two destination countries both bordered by the Mediterranean Sea. Last, I conclude with the notion that geographical proximity matters more in the case of people seeking protection in Lebanon; whereas, in Italy, it matters less since economically motivated migration prevails.
2017
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