According to recent studies, there are around 700 million adults who wish to migrate given the chance. Majority of this have economic and personal reason as their primary reason for transferring. Better job opportunities and higher wages as well as better opportunities for their children mainly drive people to migrate.

Given this situation, it can be said that personal gain is of course their reason; which is what any practical person would think of first. So yes, it is good for the individual personally and probably his family but looking at it from a different perspective, what happens if a country’s people continuously leave their homeland and transfer to another?

It cannot be denied that brain drain or the large-scale migration of individuals with technical knowledge and skills is happening alongside migration. Imagine a country without any doctors, nurses or an engineer for instance. This would definitely cause big problems for the country’s economy as well. The bigger issue here is that those who are well-trained are the ones who leave their country. It’s effect? For instance, sick individuals would opt to have a consult to a doctor with insufficient skills and knowledge because there is no other choice. Unstable buildings built because good engineers leave. Even teachers, who are thought to hone the minds of young children, cannot do so producing kids who lack dreams and proper decision-making skills.

Migration is not a very simply event. It has its advantages and disadvantages and the government of each country must have a plan to prevent too much migration from happening. If there were no preventive or protective measures, a country would continue to have less skilled workers and individuals further depressing its living condition. This would then cause more migration to happen and the cycle just continues on and on.