The most of the worlds young population immigrate to countries like Britain to study at their outstanding universities like Oxford which is renowned all over the world. If you have completed your studies in a countyr like Britain, you will have an international degree which means that you can work any where in the world without having to do an exam again. I think that because you get an international degree it makes immigration even more popular under students.
Middle aged people would mostly immigrate to develop their careers, for job experience and to find a place where they could practice their religion freely, without any violence or war.
To move legitimately to another country is definitely not an easy thing to do as, the country to which you are moving to first has to approve of you coming to stay in their country.
Countries want to protect job opportunities for their own people. Britain for example does not want to share their public funds with people who cannot contribute to the countries wealth. Britain also has a problem with asylum seekers because the country has to give them free medical etc.
That is why to qualify for a work permit, you have to have very special qualifications.
I think the most important thing if you immigrate is how you are going to deal with it.
Some people think positively about it and some people negatively but that is your own choice if you want to enjoy this new experience or not.
Most people who immigrate usually move back to their origin because of little things that does not suit them for example: They cannot adapt to the weather.
To me it is not that hard although I do sometimes think negatively about things that I do not have here in Britain but had in South Africa.
At the end of the day I still want to live in Britain because I know that I will have a lot of advantages in this country and it will be a great asset to me in the future.
I can truly say that I would never exchange this experience of being able to study in Britain for anything in the world. I just feel sorry for the people who turned back because they are missing a lot.
Rachel Lamprecht
English Coursework
28 June 2002
