Introduction
Migration is rampant around the world. There are two types of immigration: legal immigration and illegal immigration. In this essay, we will be focusing on legal immigrants: immigrants who comply with the necessary legal requirements and lawfully recorded as permanent residents.
People migrate for many different reasons, be it for the purpose of escaping unfavorable living conditions in their home countries, or that the host country offers a higher quality of life. At the same time, the host country itself can either welcome or turn away these immigrants, according to the potential positive or negative impacts migrants bring about. But ultimately, immigration is beneficial to the host country.
‘Ultimately’ refers to the positive impacts that only legal immigrants can provide for the host country, of which the host country may be facing problems such as low birth rates and labour shortage. ‘Benefitting’ the host country refers to immigration bringing positive impacts to the host country in different aspects.
In this essay, we will focus on the socioeconomic aspect that legal immigrants bring. Different migrants affect the society differently, impacting the host country’s economy, population demographics and cultural scene differently. Migrants migrating to European countries from other European or third world countries are mostly blue collared, albeit there are white collar workers too. “Ultimately beneficial” suggests that the positive factors of migration in the host country outweigh the negative ones. Thus in the long run, legal immigration is overall positive.
But will legal immigration always benefit the host country? For legal immigration to become a win-win situation where eventually, both the host country and the migrants benefit in their own ways, efforts made to include immigrants into the society need to be successful, and locals also need to have an open mindset towards accepting migrants without discriminating against them (i.e. equal work and education opportunities for both migrants and citizens), accepting and welcoming them into their society so that legal immigrants will actively and willingly contribute to society.
People migrate for many different reasons, be it for the purpose of escaping unfavorable living conditions in their home countries, or that the host country offers a higher quality of life. At the same time, the host country itself can either welcome or turn away these immigrants, according to the potential positive or negative impacts migrants bring about. But ultimately, immigration is beneficial to the host country.
‘Ultimately’ refers to the positive impacts that only legal immigrants can provide for the host country, of which the host country may be facing problems such as low birth rates and labour shortage. ‘Benefitting’ the host country refers to immigration bringing positive impacts to the host country in different aspects.
In this essay, we will focus on the socioeconomic aspect that legal immigrants bring. Different migrants affect the society differently, impacting the host country’s economy, population demographics and cultural scene differently. Migrants migrating to European countries from other European or third world countries are mostly blue collared, albeit there are white collar workers too. “Ultimately beneficial” suggests that the positive factors of migration in the host country outweigh the negative ones. Thus in the long run, legal immigration is overall positive.
But will legal immigration always benefit the host country? For legal immigration to become a win-win situation where eventually, both the host country and the migrants benefit in their own ways, efforts made to include immigrants into the society need to be successful, and locals also need to have an open mindset towards accepting migrants without discriminating against them (i.e. equal work and education opportunities for both migrants and citizens), accepting and welcoming them into their society so that legal immigrants will actively and willingly contribute to society.