Migrant workers and Expatriate assignment

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This is a blog entry i can really relate i didn´t need to reasearch much, since I was an migrant once, and is not a pretty picture at all. As most migrants in the work, me and my family left Colombia looking for a better job opportunities and I better life, In the U.S.A. also according to the Abraham Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Model, the majority of people feel the necessity to leave their country where they are having little progress in their life in reach of their basic need. This are: self-actualization, esteem needs, social needs, safety need and physiological needs. Migrants can relate to the term Expatriate, which means to exile (oneself) from one's native country or cause (another) to go into exile. But expatriate also refers to positive growing educational things such for today’s students such as expatriate assignment, where, consists of sequences of experiences across both organizations and jobs. This is a big trend going on today world. There is not a better thing to have but a CV or resume fill with different job experience all around the world. Talking from experience, since my goal is to travel and gain lots of work experience in Brazil. Expatriate assignment, implies, according to (Meziasand Scandura2005)Expatriates undergo a socialization and acculturation process that affects their career identities, also The expatriate assignment(pre-departure, expatriation, and repatriation) requires cycles of reskilling for the expatriate to make necessary adjustments to the host country, and home-country readjustments up on return.

I mean is just a question of opening your eyes to see how slowly everyday countries are working and interacting more and more with diverse cultures. And this process requires adaptation on the part of newcomers but also by the host society, because is something we can´t stop from happening and we have to get used to it

Explain how easy is it for Colombian companies to employ expatriates locally? Give examples, or suggest what could be done.

I think is not easy for Colombian companies to employ expatriates because right now we are not an industrialized country, which is very unattractive when it comes to looking for god job opportunities. I mean, if for us Colombians is hard to get a good job here, where our career is appreciated now think how it would be for foreigners. But is not all bad, in my university I have experience many interaction with people from all over the world where the reason why they come here is  because Colombia and specially Medellin is such a beautiful country, fill with amazing mountains and beautiful women. I think is very important for Colombia to offer more job opportunities and to become a develop country because we have all the potential to do it, by doing this it would become a more attractive country to migrate to.

BIBLIO.

+Gamburt, Michele. 2009 ¨ADVOCSTING FOR SRI LANKA MIGRANT WORKERS.¨ critical Asian studies 41, no. 1: 61-88

+Inkson, Kerr et al. 1999. ¨EXPARIATE ASSIGNMENTS AND OVERSEAS EXPERIENCES-CONTRASTING MODELS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. Journal of world Business. 34. 351-368