Implications of migration in country of origin

What are some of the social disadvantages for the home country?

• Breakup of communities.

• Lower birth rates → people of childbearing age leave.

• Breakup of family units.

Name some demographic disadvantages for the home country.

• Population structure - ageing population remain; population unbalanced.

• Loss of population of working age.

Name some economic disadvantages for the home country.

• Pressure to redevelop areas in decline.

• Less agricultural and industrial production.

• May create a dependency on remittances.

Name some social disadvantages for the home country.

• Less employment as there are fewer in the workforce.

• Less agricultural and industrial production.

• May lose qualified workers such as doctors, nurses and teachers.

Name some environmental disadvantages for the home country.

• Farmland, buildings and sometimes whole villages abandoned.

Name some health disadvantages for those in the home country.

• Most vulnerable are at higher risk (children, elderly, poor)

Name some economic advantages for the home country

• Some governments of overpopulated countries may encourage emigration to gain socioeconomic advantages.

• Remittances sent back home by migrants.

Name a health advantage for the home country.

• Reduced pressure on healthcare, though this can be dependent on population structure remaining.