Since ancient times, human beings have been in constant transit. Some people move in search
of work or new economic opportunities, to meet with their families or to study. Others leave
to escape conflicts, persecutions, terrorism or human rights violations or abuses. Some do so
due to adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters or other environmental factors.
Migration is a situation in which many countries are involved, because due to high demands
for work in the more developed countries and poor work and low wages in the Netherlands,
there is much this situation of migrating due to the need for a good I work with a decent
salary.
Currently, a large number of people live in a country other than where they were born, the
largest number so far. In 2017, the number of migrants reached 258 million, compared to 173
million in 2000. However, the proportion of international migrants among the world
population is only slightly higher than that registered in recent decades.
The number of international migrants has grown rapidly during the last fifteen years: from 173
million in 2000 (2.8% of the world population), it went to 222 million in 2010 (3.2% of the
world population) and 244 million in 2015 (3.3% of the world population). Nearly two-thirds
of all international migrants live in Europe (76 million) or Asia (75 million). North America is the
third-largest region in receiving international migrants (54 million), followed by Africa (21
million), and Latin America.
These estimates of the United Nations for the period 1960-2000, which include the
disaggregation by sex and by large regions of the world, brought to light the female
participation in this process. As Hania Zlotnik (2003) points out, this set of estimates revealed
that during the last forty years of the 20th century, migrant women were almost as numerous
as migrant men: 47% in 1960 and 49% in 2000 (see also: Nations United, 2004: 27). By large
regions, even this percentage share is greater than that of men, as in the case of more
developed countries where 51% of the total number of migrants is made up of women.
Women represent slightly less than half of international migrants. The proportion of migrant
women fell from 49% in 2000 to 48% in 2015. Migrant women outnumber men in Europe and
North America, while in Africa, Asia and Latin America, male migrants predominate. The
average age of international migrants worldwide was 39 years in 2015, a slight increase
compared to 2000, when it was 38 years. However, in some important areas, migrants are
increasingly younger. Between 2000 and 2015, the average age of international migrants
decreased in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and Oceania.
According to the data collected in the surroundings of our community, it is known that the
numbers of emigrants have had a dramatic increase. Between 1997 and today these figures
were given in 1997 were 18 men and 12 women in 2000 2 men and 3 women in 2004 8 men
and 4 women in 2005 4 men and no women in the year 2006 13 men and 15 women in 2010 3
men and no women in 2015 2 men and no women in 2019 23 men and 2 women these are just
some of the trips that were made year after year in the vicinity of the lagoon The number of
figures has been increasing both men and women who have gone in search of a better
standard of living, which is now known as the American dream. Despite the fact that security
increases on the border, the habit of leaving is not lost. People leave without security algin
and without knowing if they will arrive alive or not since it is a long time what they take and
are in danger when they arrive in an unknown country.