Causes + Patterns of International Migration

Question 1

What are economic migrants?

Answer 1

• ppl who move voluntarily for reasons of work + improved QOL

Question 2

What are refugees?

Answer 2

• ppl forced to leave their homes + travel to another country to escape war, persecution or natural disasters (e.g. famine)

Question 3

What are asylum seekers?

Answer 3

• ppl who have left their country to seek asylum in another + are waiting to be granted residency + to become a refugee

Question 4

What are the causes + patterns of economic migration within continents?

Answer 4

• Asia, 2017: 63M moved to a diff area of Asia (largest labour flow in the world)
• largest flows from S. Asia to W. Asia (e.g. India to Qatar) bc better job opps in W. Asia bc generally wealthier
• Europe, 2017: 41M moves to diff area in Europe
• most German immigrants from Poland (1.9M living in Germany)

Question 5

What are the causes + patterns of economic migration between continents?

Answer 5

• Asia-N. America, 2017: 17M Asian migrants (most from E + SE Asia [4M each])
• Asia-Europe: 20M (12% of migrating Asians live in Europe)

Question 6

What are the causes + patterns of refugee flows?

Answer 6

• refugees + asylum seeks make up 10% of international migrants
• Turkey has largest refugee pop (3.1M)
• estimated 70.8M refugees globally w Syria having the largest NO° of 6.7M
• conflict, drought + natural disasters have led to 2.7M Afghan refugees being displaced currently