Authors
Sheza Azeen
Abstract
Human migration is not a new process it has been there since the beginning of world, in a way this process has shaped human culture, history and economy. It has always been a matter of consideration from anthropological as well as sociological perspective. In history it has worked as mean for spreading out the whole civilization and enriching cultures. It came in as a strong driving force giving shape to cities and urbanization since the time of industrial revolution. This article aims at giving retrospective view to the readers, as to how since beginning of the world human migration is in motion, and what are different factors putting effect on this churning wheels to make it happen and increase its rate of flow. It is also observed that lately the influx had increased drastically because of Syrian war, letting hundreds of native Syrians to flee the country in search of better livelihood confirming one of the major factor for process of migration being disruptive internal issues of a country. Keywords: Anthropology, Human Migration, Factors effecting Migration, Culture, Development.
Introduction
It is said all the species travel but human beings are considered to be master of all. Since the origin of this species almost two hundred thousand years ago, humans are were on March. This migration of people from one place to another is considered to be movement. Other than human beings there is no other creature which has history of trekking up so far or make habitat in such different environments. The only place exempted on Earth from this migration is Antarctica, this is considered to be only place where humans are said not to be settled down permanently.
It has been observed that reason of this human migration differs from animal migration vastly. It is fact that animals migrate because of their biological instinct or natural deposition of being, that generally gets ignited by hormones or air temperature. While humans on the other end depends on reasoning and logic. So, it would not be unsafe to cumulate it as a fact that all of the animal kingdom migrates in order to find food, reproduce, or in response to change in seasons. But Homo sapiens goes on move for finding better livelihood.
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