Expatriates

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Expatriates are a worldwide phenomena of the last decades, although the immigration has been happening since decades ago. An expatriate is, defined by the Oxford Dictionaries Webpage, "a person who lives outside their native country", but this can happen in different ways: by own willingness because of different issues on the native country, because the company the employee is working sent him abroad, or because the citizen was exiled by the government of his native country. The thing here is that, no matter which is the reason, it is probable that the person has to work and adapt himself to the new country of residence. As the world has advanced on different fields, and as medium classes in different countries have risen, more and more people are becoming expatriates in different cathegories as shown in the image below.

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As it can be seen, around 200 million people are considered to be expatriates in 2010 and the normal cathegories are Professionals, Lifestyle Migrants, Students and Ethnic Communities. Professionals and Students are the most important cathegories as globalization has prompted both to be competitive abroad. Professionals are trying to seek better opportunities abroad as well as better positions inside their own organizations. By its side, students, mostly postgraduate, are being attracted by different countries to study, and some times to stay there after that. This two trends can be supported by the percentage of immigrants in contrast with the population of the developed countries, shown below, that demonstrates how now reaching 10% of their populations are immigrants, a rather high number.

If we take the data and compare it with the worldwide population, the total immigration would be 3% more or less. this means that the immigration in developed countries is higher than the worldwide average, and for instance corroborates the view that students and professionals look at developed countries to live at. This trend is making organizations become more and more global as they have to start working even in their home business with people from different countries.

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Bibliography

Just Landed (2011) Expatriates Worldwide How Many Are They? Just Landed (webpage). Access 15/05/2011 Retrieved from http://www.justlanded.com/english/Common/Footer/Expatriates