Drivers Workshop
Driver 3: Increasing Significance of Migration
Impact: Access to migration, the impact is quite big for our persona - forms of discrimination, how likely she will be to succeed in her career, how her community views migration (if they are supportive or not) - If she has a community in North America (or if she needs one). Societies Expectation in Guest Country.
Positive Impact: Role Model for Migration; If Policy change for highly qualified students and make it easier to migrate, it would be easier to study abroad; Expectations of her community.
Negative Impact: Difficulty of entry (receiving visa etc.), Access to resources (if scholarship fails, financial means), forms of discrimination (Racism, Sexism, Impacts her career and personal life), Impact on her family in Kenya (social ties)
Driver 9: Changing nature of work
Impact: She can achieve her goals without migrating - studying abroad would be possible through homeschooling. Import are her resources: Does she have all the technical supplies to be able to study through homeschooling? Maybe an alternative form of scholarship. career vs. your own aspirations
Positive Impact: Doesn't have to migrate, no cultural shock/no adaption
Negative Impact: Doesn't have to migrate (or is not allowed to even if she wants), Network that is missing (globalization not possible in the same way, importance of personal networks).
Driver 11: Shifting health challenges
Impact: Self Fulfillment = Healthy Lifestyle; Possibility of access to health facilities, mental health (trauma of fleeing) - access as an immigrated person in North America - Does she even access?
Positive Impacts: Mental Health - being able to seek help regarding her trauma; Maybe she could create access to health care for her family;
Negative Impacts: Mental Health - already has an existing trauma and leaving her country again may cause another trauma; Although the access is not guaranteed in North America; Identity Crises - many nationalities in her (Somalia, Kenya, North America) - she doesn't feel as if she belongs anywhere, but at the same time feels connected to all places.
Where is the persona, how does her world look like in 2050
Rose is working in Kenya as a global consultant. She is recognized as an influential person advocating for refugee rights and girls education. However, her American husband is facing difficulties adjusting to life in Kenya. They lived in the US for 20 years and have two children, who are still living there with Roses sister. It was difficult for Rose to face immigration barriers with a country she calls home, as she is not a Kenyan citizen. Because Rose received a job offer that she couldn't turn down, they decided to move to Kenya, even though her husband wouldn't be able to continue his job as a lawyer. Rose wants to be there to give back to her community. Working with refugees in Kenya brings up her own experiences as a refugee and affects her mental health. Because she knows from her own experience how important mental health aid is as a refugee, she wants to help support other refugees in receiving the care they need.
2020-2030: What is the development of the drivers at this point and what is the effect on the migration pattern for the persona?
Rose was accepted into a good university in the US and therefore easily received a study visa. She met her future husband at her last year in university. As she realized, that she would have to go back to kenya soon (as her visa is about to expire because it is linked to her studies), they got married so that they could stay together and Rose would be able to find work in the US. She now has a master degree in international relations. Through all this difficulties her mental health was influenced negatively and due to the health system in the US it was nearly impossible for her to receive the care she needed.
2030-2040: What is the development of the drivers at this point and what is the effect on the migration pattern for the persona?
During this time, Rose and her husband were thinking of getting a divorce. But they had to wait until Rose receives the US-Citizenship, so they made a contract to still live together even though they weren't in love anymore. After receiving her citizenship Rose got divorced and focused on her career. She focuses on consulting for international organizations, where she is working contract based on projects. She was only able to do this because she got her residence permit from being married to someone with citizenship. Thanks to technological advancements she took on projects all over the world. She then met her boyfriend who has two children (she adopted them). Now that she is financially better off, she can afford the health care she needs.
2040-2050: What is the development of the drivers at this point and what is the effect on the migration pattern for the persona?
Plot Twist: Roses new boyfriend and her are facing a new challenge when they decide to move to Kenya: It is not possible for her to migrate with him without getting married (She isn't a Citizen of Kenya, as she only has (had?) a residence permit (as a refugee), which makes migrating even more difficult) Thats why they decided to get married, even though Rose doesn't believe in marriage anymore.
They deceided to move to Kenya as she received a job offer she couldn't turn down. She was able to continue with her consulting projects as she can work online. Her husband is the homemaker, which makes it difficult for him to integrate. Through her experience with mental health issues, she wants to make sure that every Kenyan is able to receive mental health care.