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Migration: Problem or Blessing?

Migration: Problem or Blessing?. Immigration vs Emigration. What about Ecuadorian abroad? And foreign people here?. One of the largest immigrant group in NY and second largest one in Spain Two waves of migration, USA and then to Spain (Europe)

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Migration: Problem or Blessing?

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  1. Migration: Problem or Blessing? Immigration vs Emigration

  2. What about Ecuadorian abroad? And foreign people here? • One of the largest immigrant group in NY and second largest one in Spain • Two waves of migration, USA and then to Spain (Europe) • Peruvians and Colombians are the largest group of emigrants in Ecuador

  3. Where are immigrants from? • Cañar, Azuay, Loja 1960 to 1980 • 1998 to 2004 • Why? “Low oil prices and floods that damaged export crops, coupled with political instability and financial mismanagement, caused a second economic crisis in the late 1990s. The national currency, the sucre, lost more than two-thirds of its value, and the unemployment rate rose to 15 percent and the poverty rate to 56 percent.”

  4. Figure 1. Number of Ecuadorians who Received Lawful Permanent Resident Status in the United States per Decade, 1960 to 2009

  5. Ecuadorians Abroad Where in USA? NY, MIAMI, CHICAGO

  6. REMITTANCES ??? • Similar to manyLatin American countries, Ecuador dependsonthefundsitsmigrantssend home. The Inter-American Development Bank estimatedthat Ecuador received $2.0 billion in remittances in 2004, equivalent to 6.7 percent of its GDP and secondonly to oilexports; 14 percent of adults in Ecuador receiveremittancesregularly.

  7. Whatfor??? • At least 75 percent of remittances are usedfirstforbasichouseholdneeds — education, food, medicine — and to cancel debts. In 2006, migrantshad to pay coyotes ordocumentforgersapproximately $12,500 eachforclandestinetravel to theUnitedStates. Afterbasicneeds are met and theirdebtspaid off, thousands of Ecuadoriansbuild new homes, replacingmodest adobe structures.

  8. Homework Compare causes and consequences of internal and international migration to give your opinion on the matter.

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