Self-organization Simulation Applied to Migration across a Peaceful Border: A Recent Study | Chapter 8 | New Visions in Science and Technology Vol. 4

Migration over a shared boundary between two entities, states, or countries has been studied utilising self-organization using simple dynamic laws. The migrant's journey and final destination are depicted. There were two types of objects in the system. One pair was on the other side of the fence. One side, the right, was thought to be the superior entity. That is, it had a solid administration and a powerful economy. In terms of government and economy, the organisation on the left was significantly different. The things on either side were then split into two groups. Strong and weak were the terms used to describe the two groupings. The powerful symbolise government, the wealthy or elite represent the elite, and the weak represent the common public. The items were first randomly placed in this two-dimensional square-bounded zone before being allowed to interact dynamically for a number of iterations. The attractive or repulsive forces among all of the particles as a group were described and may be modified to investigate the resulting configuration from the dynamics. To see how self-organization pertains to these settings, four experiments were done. In Experiment 1, only the object-to-object forces were active during migration. The concept of employment was introduced in Experiment 2. An unemployed object was given the ability to move faster than an employed object, allowing the unemployed to move more freely. The rate of employment on the right side is significantly higher than on the left. Experiment 3 looked at turning one of the repelling forces into an attractor. Experiment 3 was identical to Experiment 2, with the exception that it went through twice as many iterations. On the right side, Experiment 4 created employment centres. Left-side migrants who came close enough to a centre were given jobs at these centres. If the migrant on the left side got a job in the centre, he or she did not move for the rest of the simulation. There was no incentive for a migrant to stay in Experiments 1 and 2, so the migrant crossed the border back and forth. Experiment 4 assumed that the job provided an incentive for the migrant to stay in one place. As a result, migrant clusters formed around job centres. The clusters that formed were not long-lasting, implying that there was no reason to stay. The goal of this project was to use computer simulation on a group of migrants in order to observe traffic patterns from one side to the other and see if clusters or enclaves formed.

 

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William J. B. Oldham
Texas Tech University, 3877 Royal Troon Dr., Round Rock, TX. 78664, USA.

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