The Impact of Youth Migration in International Development

The Impact of Youth Migration in International Development

Dini Fuadillah Sofyan

email:dini_sofyan@rocketmail.com

            Nowadays, youth migration has been a new topic in international discussion. International migration is the movement of people from a country to other countries. The migration of population is the people movement to settle in new administrative place. Migration is closely related to population displacement. Further, there are two kinds of population displacement; the first is vertical displacement, for example the moving of the human status of low class to middle class, from a low rank to a higher rank, or vice versa. The second is horizontal displacement like the people movement from one place to another. The second population displacement is commonly called as migration.

Population mobility or migration is a vital component of the population (demography), in addition to fertility and mortality. Compared to fertility and mortality, migration is a component of population that has inter-connection with various other aspects of society, such as aspects of social, economic, politics and culture. For example the case of population mobility impacts toward political policy of government for immigrants.

Migration has great political impacts. The political impact of migration is not direct and linear, but always through the setting and context, which are often complex. The setting and the context in which the impact of migration on political will, strongly influenced by the political system. Patterns and trends of migration is also determined by how the political system is in a states. The transmigration program which shows the existence of population mobility by country settings is determined from the dominant political system by the authoritarian and centralistic. Meanwhile, the pattern of spontaneous migration happens in a democratic political system-decentralists. Thus it can be concluded that the complexity of the relationship between migration and politics does not take place in one direction but rather a reciprocal. It is the nexus migration-politics. In fact, a population policy should be able to restore the vision of the country that puts the population as citizens (citizen) who have rights, including the right to migrate, the right to housing and a decent job, wherever he is. The development of identity politics based on ethnicity and religion in the era of decentralization and regional autonomy needs to be prevented because it against the human being rights to have equal status regardless of background, ethnicity, religion, gender and origin of the area of origin. Democracy and decentralization, in the perspective of population, should be a means to develop participatory demographics, which gives freedom and responsibility of the Government and citizens to jointly enhance the economic prosperity and social justice. The migration can give the negative and positive impact for the country, the social, the development of economic, politic, human resources, culture, education and so on. Therefore, it is youth’s homework to create solution for anticipating the negative impact of migration in world society.