What is e-migration?

Since the concept of a country came into being, immigration has never stopped, especially with the rapid development of information technology and transportation. Today, our vast earth is gradually shrinking and becoming a "global village", and the wave of immigrants around the world is intensifying. In this wave of immigration, a new way of immigration-"electronic immigration" was born.

The so-called "e-immigration" refers to people who work for foreign companies and even the government through the Internet. They can read books in foreign libraries, attend classes in universities, order goods in shops, watch movies in cinemas and talk face to face with friends all over the world through the Internet. In a word, through the Internet, interactive TV and other high-tech and equipment, they are just like living abroad, and their living space is no longer limited to a certain country. Of course, all this is done electronically and the scene is "virtual".

The emergence and development of "electronic migration" has a profound background. First of all, the development of technology and equipment provides hardware guarantee for "electronic immigration". The development of information technology is rapidly changing people's way of life and work. Secondly, the high-tech revolution has greatly promoted the development of globalization and provided a broad space for the survival and development of "electronic immigrants". Nowadays, multinational companies are booming. Companies not only operate internationally, but also employees become international people across borders. A multinational company often has only a few dozen people at its headquarters, but its employees all over the world often reach tens of thousands. For these people who operate globally through the Internet all day, the concept of living space has changed completely. The combination of these trends makes the changes in the era of "global village" more rapid, and also makes the development trend of "e-migration" clearer.

The appearance of "e-migration" shows a seemingly brilliant prospect to people who have long felt like "frogs in the well". Its positive influence mainly has four aspects. First of all, the emergence of "e-migration" provides people with a broader living space and more opportunities and possibilities for people to exert their talents and creativity. Secondly, the emergence of "e-migration" has further promoted the process of globalization. This is mainly because the way of "e-migration" has greatly strengthened international exchanges and integration, including economy, culture, ideas and many other aspects. Third, the emergence of "e-migration" will help solve many problems of traditional immigrants, such as urban congestion and overpopulation. "E-migration" will give people a wider choice space, gradually dilute people's views on cities and sense of ethnic differences, and make people choose to settle in cleaner and more comfortable small and medium-sized cities and developing countries. Fourthly, the emergence of "e-migration" has put forward higher and higher requirements for information technology and related high-tech, such as the development of multimedia Internet and the real global information superhighway.

Of course, behind these blueprints, the emergence of "e-immigration" has also brought some concerns to people. First of all, the emergence of "e-migration" weakens the concept of "nationality" to a certain extent, which has brought great impact on the traditional concept of the state and challenged the current state management model of various countries. Secondly, the emergence of "electronic migration" reduces the face-to-face contact between people, which may make some people who are addicted to electronic networks all day become "electronic". In other words, they will get used to the virtual space, resulting in psychological problems such as emptiness, unreality and indifference in interpersonal relationships, and become so-called "electronic people". Third, some "e-immigrants" use the Internet to carry out various international criminal activities, for example, cyber hackers use the Internet to commit financial crimes and invade the national security net.