Challenging Aspects Of Immigration: Problematic Impact On The Host Country

An Introduction to the Challenging Aspects of Immigration: Problematic Impacts on the Emigrant and on the Host Country. By Eirini Fotiadou
It is generally approved by many social scientists , that immigration poses one of the most important issue of our modern society .Migratory flows appears to directly affect the economy of the host country, since is undeniable that they change the output and the unemployment rate of the nation. They also have more complex effects on the wages, the demand for education, the health services and social infrastructure and the political, social and cultural conditions of the country. Apart from the direct impact on the size and structure of a
First and foremost, emigrants have to adjust to a different lifestyle and integrate in a new local community which definitely requires speaking the local language at least at a basic level. According to researches, the majority of the immigrants don’t have the appropriate language skills at the beginning of their arrival to a foreign country and as a result the communication between the immigrants and the local population is ineffective. Thus, it is extremely difficult for an immigrant to develop social relations which are of a paramount importance in order to get successfully employed and generally find their place into the
As it is observed in many host countries, the arrival of a large number of immigrants with a significant percentage of illegal workers between them has a serious impact on total output . The size of the informal sector of the economy is significally increased since there are a lot of immigrants who are willing to work uninsured. That can lead to the increase of the tax evasion which creates consequences to the tax revenues of the host