The role of workers+ migrant workers + expatriates

Since long time ago, when the globalization processes started to cover all the world, so on the world started to unify their boundaries, the human migration rate started to increase constantly year per year.

These rates are constantly increasing for many reasons, most of the time, is because migrants want to look for opportunities in other countries, work opportunities or just to improve their quality of life.

Migration is a concept that people used to compare with expatriates, but there are too many differences between both concepts, in the following squares you must understand such differences.

By having clear both concepts, people ask their self, how migration rates, but even more how expatriates rates can help or threaten a certain country. Off course expatriates are very important to the economy of a country, because they are the ones who work and teach to companies new forms of business or the market tendencies, but it also represent a threaten talking about the professionals, well-prepared inside this country that were losing the opportunity to show their abilities.

QUESTION: Explain how easy is it for Colombian companies to employ expatriates locally? Give examples.

QUESTION: Explain how easy is it for Colombian companies to employ expatriates locally? Give examples.

Some articles of the Colombian Constitution argued that all companies resided in Colombia has to  prefer national employees more than expatriates, this article pretend to protect even more our national intellectual capital.

But it doesn’t mean that expatriates in Colombia are not welcome, opposite all expatriates living in Colombia were supposed to have a good job, and I really think that expatriates might be well paid than nationals because most of the used to be well prepared.

It is important to include that here in Colombia, most in Medellin city, we have a lot of foreign companies established here, and therefore it is another cause of the huge amount of expatriates living here.

The universities are also very interested to employ this kind of personnel, because universities are very interested in develop multilingualism, a foreign mind about business, or not just business, develop foreign technologies and most important they want to develop KNOWLEDGE.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

  -Migration, Knowledge and Social Interaction: Expatriate Labour within Investment Banks Jonathan V. Beaverstock Area Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec., 1996), pp. 459-470.

 
-Migrant workers and well-off expatriates.Hasan Mahmud. FE financial express. may 2010. Retrieved from: http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/search_index.php?news_id=13439&page=detail_news

-Migrant workers vs expatriates - glaring double standards. March 2009. Retrieved from: http://anilnetto.com/democracy/human-rights/migrant-workers-vs-expatriates-our-double-standards/

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