Why do people migrate?. Anthropology

• 1. Push factors: lack of economic opportunities, poverty, famine, natural disasters, climate change, war, genocide, political violence, forced displacement
• 2. Pull factors: economic opportunities, higher wages, educational opportunities, access to healthcare, family sponsorship, media promoting the desire to live a western middle class life style
- Cosmopolitanism: the act of including people from many different countries
• as a metaculture: its meaning and usages are shaped by contexts/political motives of the users
• as an openness towards divergent cultural experiences: a search for contrasts rather than uniformity, but not simply as a matter of appreciation as a matter of competence
- Legal citizenship: the rights and obligations of citizenship accorded by the laws of a state
-    Substantive citizenship or Cultural citizenship: the actions people take to assert their membership in a state and to bring about political changes that will improve their lives
-    Claim citizenship: basic social rights claimed by the displaced populations across the world
-    Flexible citizenship: a strategy that combines the security of a citizenship in a new country with business opportunities in homeland
-    Territorial citizenship: citizenship developed among residents of Indigenous territories who have been granted full control and authority over lands that are located within the boundaries of a nation state
-    Cultural Imperialism: the domination of western culture is seen as responsible for de-stroying other cultures, traditions, local livelihoods or economies, and environments
-    Cultural Hybridity: involves cultural borrowing with modification, based on the notion of cultural mixing, may involve the development of a new form of culture practice as consequence of mixing old and new cultures, assumes that people never adopt any-thing blindly but always adapt what they borrow for local purposes