Advantages and Disadvantages of Migration

Migration is moving from one place to another in search of food, pasture, education, habitat, and employment. Many people in Kenya migrate. Others migrated to urban areas while others migrated to rural areas. Reason for this, is to look for employment, better education, and better place to live.

In Kenya, some people come from other countries (immigrants) such as Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, and other parts. They come for tourism, to learn our cultures, interact with Kenyans and also Kenyans would learn from them.

Migration can be caused by drought, conflicts, clashes and other events. Drought can make people migrate with their livestocks in search of food and pasture.  Examples of this sort of migration are the Maasai and Fulani communities.

Conflicts and clashes make many people migrate from their homes to save their lives. When people migrate, the population of the country will decrease. When clashes occur, many people will lose their lives too.

For me, migration is not good because when you migrate to another country, you might be discriminated, hated, or oppressed or even killed. When you migrate with your livestock to search for food and pasture, you might be killed and the livestocks might be stolen.

Migration has advantages and disadvantages. Some of advantages include: getting better places, interacting with people and learning their way of live. Disadvantages include: being killed, livestock stolen or conflicts.

When someone migrates, he/she will start everything new such as looking for shelter and it will take long time to interact with people of a certain community.

In some countries, some people might be merciful and they will help each other while others will discriminate the migrants and oppress them by giving them a lot of work to do without giving them enough food. Later the immigrants will became sick and might pass away.

Surely, migration should be avoided and security  provided to keep people safe and enjoy life.