Global Migration Flashcards
How does global migration promote stability, growth and development in the host destination through the flows of people, money ideas and technology?
Highly-skilled migrants contribute substantially to technology innovation and research and development in destination countries – particularly high-income countries. Migrants and diaspora groups are an important channel for transferring technology from destination countries back to origin countries.
How does global migration promote stability, growth and development in the COUNTRY OF ORIGIN through flows of people, money ideas and technology?
Migration can have both positive and negative impacts on countries of origin as well as those of destination. For the countries migrants are leaving, the loss of labor can relieve pressure in over-crowded labor markets, propping up wages and easing unemployment.
What is economic globalization?
Economic globalization refers to the increasing interdependence of world economies as a result of the growing scale of cross-border trade of commodities and services, flow of international capital and wide and rapid spread of technologies.
What is the difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee?
An asylum seeker is a person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another, however a refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
What is interdependence?
Interdependence is the dependence of two or more people or things on each other.
What are the current patterns of immigration?
In 2019, regionally, Europe hosts the largest number of international migrants (82 million), followed by Northern America (59 million) and Northern Africa and Western Asia (49 million).
How have immigration and emigration changed over time?
Overall, the estimated number of international migrants has increased over the past five decades and Immigration has increases over the past few decades in the UK and The USA.
Impact of migration on Brazil’s economic development.
In recent decades, a rise in the service economy, foreign investment, and exports have helped grow Brazil’s GDP due to immigrants going to Brazil and finding work which they would then pay tax to the government.
Impact of migration on Brazil’s political stability.
Brazil has a stable and democratic political system. There are stable political relationships between Brazil and the countries with which it has significant bilateral migrant flows, especially The USA, Japan and Portugal.
Why are flows in South-South now equal in magnitude to those in South-North corridors?
There is an increases in flows from South-South migration due to it being cheaper to travel there as well as the things are cheaper there as well as there is an increase in job opportunities.
Impact of migration on Brazil’s social equality.
Inequality have a spatial perspective with poverty in Brazil as well as the poverty is concentrated in rural areas or in the favelas to which the poor migrate.
Why is there now a high concentration of female workers? What is influencing their move? Where are they going?
Change in human rights in host countries. The female workers are going to Latvia.
What is a bilateral flow? Can you give an example of any long standing
Mexico to the USA is an example of a bilateral flow. A bilateral flow is
Which countries have strict immigration policies? Which country is pro emigration? Why?
Australia has st4rict immigration policies as they only let in people who are an engineer, doctor or a teach just to name a few. Pakistan is pro emigration.
What are the challenges and opportunities facing countries accepting refugees?
Discrimination, language barriers, lack of infrastructure etc. The opportunities are a young work force
