A-Level Geography: Migration, Identity and Sovereignty EXAMPLE RESPONSES

Question 1

Enquiry question 1: What are the impacts of globalisation on international migration?

[Point] How has globalisation led to an increase in international migration?

Answer 1

• Globalisation has helped accelerate the rate of international migration.
• As of 2014, 230 million people lived in a country that wasn’t their place of birth.
• This is due to the advancement of transport networks. This had allowed people to travel easily and affordably. This had enabled the increased cross-border movement of people and therefore more globalisation.

Question 2

Enquiry question 1: What are the impacts of globalisation on international migration?

[Counterbalance] How has globalisation led to an increase in international migration?

Answer 2

• However, it can be argued political factors affect the different rates of international migration.
• Take national government levels of engagement within the globalised world. Japan is an advanced economy with a declining population; where the working-age population is expected to drop to 44 million by 2037, half of what it was in 2007.
• However, the government policy with regards to migration is very closed-door towards migrants. Because of this, rates of international migration can be set back regardless of a globalised economy.

Question 3

Enquiry question 1: What are the impacts of globalisation on international migration?

What are the economic reasons behind migration?

Answer 3

• In the two years following Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic’s joining of the EU in 2004, the UK became the host country for 600,000 Eastern European migrants, with the vast majority citing economic causes as their motivation for migrating.
• Many migrants found jobs in construction, retail and administrative trades, in which they earned up to five times as much as they did in their source countries.