8B.2

Question 1

What are some reasons people have for migration?

Answer 1

• family in different countries
• education opportunities
• job opportunities

Question 2

Positives of migration

Answer 2

+ connects families
+ helps fill gaps in labour market
+ come to study
+ increased GDP
+ more culturally diverse

Question 3

Negatives of migration

Answer 3

• reduced jobs available
• reduced homes with rising house prices
• racism conflicts
• strained services

Question 4

What does national identity mean?

Answer 4

sense of a nation as a whole, represented by distinctive trends

Question 5

What does sovereignty mean?

Answer 5

authority to run state

Question 6

What are economic freedoms?

Answer 6

Trade liberations- removing tariffs
Open borders- freedom to move around

Question 7

How can economic freedoms be a problem for national identity?

Answer 7

Creates people to be confused and could have multiple national identities, also impacts sovereignty as there is more to control

Question 8

Why do migrants move to the US?

Answer 8

work, education, reuniting with families and improved standard of living

Question 9

What is the US immigration policy?

Answer 9

Green cards if has family living there
Employment based to encourage skilled workers
Have to apply and only certain number of people is accepted
However….
Due to trump becoming president migration is changing as more deportations, raised security at the border

Question 10

What are migration flows?

Answer 10

Number of migrants entering and leaving a country