Causality Connection: The Phenomenon of Migration
An Introduction: The Relevancy of a Phenomenon with other Phenomena as a Causality Connection.
If a phenomenon occurs, surely there will be another phenomenon that follows, and there will be a phenomenon that occurs before it. This relationship is known as causality because these phenomena affect each other — one phenomenon being the cause of another. The phenomenon that in this brief portrait will be discussed is immigration, from an anthropological perspective. The reason I observe this phenomenon because it has become a periodic ritual that is broadly familiar as an aspect of life in society.
Relation to Anthropology
Migration is a mobilization from one area to another. In relating it to anthropology, it provides a significant influence in civilization, such as the influence of personality on the physical constitution for a certain period. In ethnographic studies, people are familiar with this mobilization since prehistoric times, which was carried out by early humans in a nomadic process of survival. Over time, immigration/migration remains the axis of mobility for community groups for various purposes. Through this, anthropology seeks to find relationships between trends that can cause mobility in society with the actions and consequences that can be caused by it.
Roots of Migration
Migration arises from various symptoms that are recognized by the community. The question of the emergence of this mobility can maintain the condition of society itself, from social to geographical conditions. Migration grows a decision where people have the desire to leave their original place of residence and seek a new life in another place. There are many reasons and types of applications. But what will be analyzed at this point is how generally it can arise and give effect in the community, both on its departure and arrival. As noted by Valentine et al. 2009, “And while many refugees were able to organize themselves and their communities in ways that reshaped their original systems, they were also challenged by the expectations of the 56 countries of destination, their traditions, demands, and expectations.”
Opportunities and Limitations as a part of Migration’s Process
Questions about mobility arise because of opportunities and limitations. Society could see the potentials on their environment, whether it could support them to achieve a purpose, or it should be by external support that they realized by the opportunities they see in the outside environment, as stated by Cohen and Sirkeci (2011) that “Questions about mobility arise. as a potential driver to see new opportunities outside the immediate environment.”
We could go deeper into this. For example, in terms of economics — whether it is an economic reason where the potential for profit in the original environment is not promising/sufficient or the external environment is assumed to offer better opportunities. This reason can occur from various aspects, but in a broader outline, it describes the people’s desire to achieve their goals by moving to places that have more opportunities. In this case, these opportunities and limitations are the cause and effect of the incident itself. It came from the perspective of both the newcomer and the recipient itself.
Regarding opportunities, migrants give up quite a lot of materials and non-material aspect to get them. When it comes to international permits, it relates to how willing migrants go beyond culture — language and other determiners of the opportunity. Then when talking about urbanization, it is related to how migrants are sacrificing to be able to seize opportunities in environments related to technology and higher education, and so on. Simply this is the cause of differences in humans, where adaptation is the key to how a different person can be accepted or can get opportunities in a new environment.
Examples of the Sustainable Effects of Migration
Also, Migration can occur ongoing damage, or what people said ‘a problem’ The debate between legality and human rights often arises because of incidents that go beyond reasonable limits. The limit of equality here settled by written law and applicable local ethics. Problems often occur due to differences, ignorance, or inability to adapt, whether provoked by the recipient society or the incoming society. The result of various ‘problem’ events, in this case, is a bad stigma that eventually sticks, which in turn can influence future migrants to get opportunities. We could link this to political policies deployed by the regions, and regions originating from areas categorized like that because of the large number of migrants in many periods who migrated there.
Conclusion
From the sequence of phenomena above, I conclude that phenomena have a causal relationship, where an event/phenomenon will continue to be the cause or effect of other events/phenomena. The concrete example in this short portrait arises from the demand of migrating that is determined by:
- the conditions
- how it is impacting the migrant’s mindset
- the necessity to adapt to the prevailing culture and law
- how the place of destination can be affected by the mobilization
- the impact on the development of the mobility sector, such as vehicles, technology, and policies
- the effect on the physical condition of civilization in a long period, and many more.
In essence, the inclinations that exist in the origin area of a migrant formed a system of ideas in which determining their next step to overcome/achieve it. Then these systems of ideas produce actions, namely activities of a particular form and type that could make a new pattern in society, whether it affects the socio-cultural, economic, political aspects, and so on.
References:
Jeffrey H. Cohen and Ibrahim Sirkeci. 2011.”Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Movement.”University of Texas Press page 53
Refugees and Asylum Seekers Living in the UK and Denmark.”Environment and Planning D:
Society and Space 27: 234–250. DOI:10.1068/d3407
Valentine, G., D. Sporton, and K. B. Nielsen. 2009.“Identities and Belonging: A Study of Somali Refugees and Asylum Seekers Living in the UK and Denmark.”Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
