Demography Flashcards
term: birth rate
number of live births per 1000 population per year
term: fertility rate
average number of live births per 1000 women of child bearing age per year
term: infant morality rate
number of deaths of infants under 1 yr per 1000 live births per year
reasons for birth and fertility rates decreasing
- changing in attitudes
- womens independence
- reproductive technology
- access to higher education
- secularisation
- rising cost of children
- improved contraception
- access to abortion
- easier access to divorce
- fall in IMR
term: immigration
movement INTO a country from another
term: emigration
movement OUT of a country
term: net migration
difference between mount of people moving in and moving out of a country
term: refugee
migration: examples of push factors
- lack of services
- lack of safety
- high crime
- crop failure
- droughts
- poverty
- war
migration: examples of pull factors
- higher employment
- more wealth
- better services
- good climate
- less crime
- political stability
- better education
what did the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act do?
made it tougher for Asylum seekers to settle in the Uk
what is the impact of Brexit and the immigration points system?
made it harder for immigrants to enter the country and has led to many European immigrants to leave
term: globalisation
creation of one-world culture, happening due to developments in technology and world travel
negative consequences of globalisation
- increase human trafficking
- breaking up families
- growing success of anti-immigrant political parties
- growing fear of immigrants
- increase sex work + emotional labour in females
positive consequences of globalisation
- migrants taking unwanted jobs by British workers
- reducing dependency ratio
- migrants have ‘trasnational identities’
