Gallup survey on Immigration

[Wd40]

Interesting:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/161435/100-m ... -life.aspx

I would have loved to see where Singapore stands in both lists

Also shocking to see, how many people want to move to Saudi Arabia ahead of UAE and Qatar

[The Ref]

I cant believe there are only 10M Indians wanting to move to the USA

[nakatago]

I cant believe there are only 10M Indians wanting to move to the USA

LOL.

Maybe the others want to go to Australia or Canada instead.

[ecureilx]

I cant believe there are only 10M Indians wanting to move to the USA

LOL.

Maybe the others want to go to Australia or Canada instead.

Well, in reality, the urge to go US and Australia / Canada has gone down for many Indians .. or so me thinks ..

When my cousin completed his Degree in and Indian Engineering College, in mid 90's he said all of them wanted to go to US or were heading there ..

Last year, another relative of mine had his son complete his Course in IIT and his daughter in AIIMs, and both told that not many of their classmates want to go overseas ..

on the other hand, I see many saying they want to 'migrate' to Singapore and a lot many have migrated to Malaysia as well under MM2H !

[Wd40]

Agree with Ecureilx.

Another thing.The key word is "migrate" here. Even those Indians who do have the desire to go to a developed country, want to earn a lot of dollars/pounds/dinars and then come back to their village build a big villa and enjoy life. Thats not "migration".

[zzm9980]

The key word is "migrate" here. Even those Indians who do have the desire to go to a developed country, want to earn a lot of dollars/pounds/dinars and then come back to their village build a big villa and enjoy life. Thats not "migration".

I disagree completely. I checked two different dictionaries and Wikipedia, and they also all disagree with you. What you describe is definitely migration. The most thorough definition:

According to International Organization for Migration, man "no universally accepted definition for (migrant) exists. The term migrant was usually understood to cover all cases where the decision to migrate was taken freely by the individual concerned for reasons of "personal convenience" and without intervention of an external compelling factor; it therefore applied to persons, and family members, moving to another country or region to better their material or social conditions and improve the prospect for themselves or their family. The United Nations defines migrant as an individual who has resided in a foreign country for more than one year irrespective of the causes, voluntary or involuntary, and the means, regular or irregular, used to migrate. Under such a definition, those travelling for shorter periods as tourists and businesspersons would not be considered migrants. However, common usage includes certain kinds of shorter-term migrants, such as seasonal farm-workers who travel for short periods to work planting or harvesting farm products." [1] Also, human migration happened when the Paleo-Indians entered America.

[rajagainstthemachine]

The key word is "migrate" here. Even those Indians who do have the desire to go to a developed country, want to earn a lot of dollars/pounds/dinars and then come back to their village build a big villa and enjoy life. Thats not "migration".

I disagree completely. I checked two different dictionaries and Wikipedia, and they also all disagree with you. What you describe is definitely migration. The most thorough definition:

According to International Organization for Migration, man "no universally accepted definition for (migrant) exists. The term migrant was usually understood to cover all cases where the decision to migrate was taken freely by the individual concerned for reasons of "personal convenience" and without intervention of an external compelling factor; it therefore applied to persons, and family members, moving to another country or region to better their material or social conditions and improve the prospect for themselves or their family. The United Nations defines migrant as an individual who has resided in a foreign country for more than one year irrespective of the causes, voluntary or involuntary, and the means, regular or irregular, used to migrate. Under such a definition, those travelling for shorter periods as tourists and businesspersons would not be considered migrants. However, common usage includes certain kinds of shorter-term migrants, such as seasonal farm-workers who travel for short periods to work planting or harvesting farm products." [1] Also, human migration happened when the Paleo-Indians entered America.

well in that case they are going to migrate back

[Wd40]

Well! If you click the link for the survey again and do a CTRL F and search for the word "Permanently" you will get 11 results in the same page.

So may be the accurate definition for "migrate" is different but in the context of the survey my definition stands!

[zzm9980]

Well! If you click the link for the survey again and do a CTRL F and search for the word "Permanently" you will get 11 results in the same page.

So may be the accurate definition for "migrate" is different but in the context of the survey my definition stands!

The survey specifically says "Permanently migrate", which is different than migrate, which is exactly what the Indians in your example are doing.