global migration Flashcards
name 2 states that were created in 1990
- Estonia
- Latvia
what is migration
Migration is the movement of people to an area or country
what is population change
the balance of the number being born (birth rate) and the number dying (death rate), the number moving in (immigration) and the number moving out (emigration)
what is net migration
difference in the number of people moving permanently into and out of an area
what is immigration
in - migration of people into a country which involves permanent change of residence
what is emigration
out - migration of people from a country which involves permanent change of residence
what are refugess
a person who has moved outside of a country of his/her nationality or usual domain because of genuine fear of prosecution or death
what are asylum seeker
a person who seeks entry to another country by claiming to be a refugee
what is economic migrant
a person who moves for another country of region or place, involving a permanent or semi -permanent change of residence, to improve their standard of living or job oppurtunities
what is economic migrant
a person who moves for another country o region or place, involving a permanent or semi -permanent change of residence, to improve their standard of living or job opportunities
what are inter - regional flows
migration of large number of people between different regions of the world e.g. Europe to north America
what are intra - regional flows
migration of large numbers of people within the regions of the world e.g. England to Wales
what is illegal migration
migration with no government permissions, no documentation which usually limits right to work
what are migrant remittances
money transferred from one country to another sent home by migrants to their family, friends and communities
what are diasporas
the spread of an ethnic or national group from their home land e.g. jews from Israel or |Kurds from Kurdistan
state 3 key intra regional flows
- large amount of migration from the Mexico and Caribbean countries into America
- a lot of movement of people in the Europe and a large amount of movement of people in the middle east
- immigration from Syria to the middle eastern countries
how many people migrate from central America to north America
around 4 million
how many people migrate from south Asia to western Asia
around 4.5 million
how many people migrate from central Asia to eastern Europe
around 0.5 million
what is Lee’s model of migration
give 4 examples of what barrier there could be in inter - regional migration
- mountains (physical barrier)
- cost of migration (economic barriers)
- the climate or weather of the destination country
- language barriers
what is the human development index
it is a composite index, incorporating social and economic indicies for life expectancy education and GDP per capita
what pattern should one expect to find between level of socio - economic development and patterns of migration
a economically stable and developed country will have a large inflow of migrants, but won’t have much immigration or migrant remittances being sent to the country, the opposite is to be said of a developing country that is no as economically stable and developed
what is the trend with HDI and migrant remittances
the higher the HDI of a country the lower the number of migrant remittances is, whereas the higher the number of migrant remittances the lower the HDI of the country (this is applicable in most cases)
what is the brain drain
the emigration of highly trained or qualified people from a particular country.
who is the winner in the migration game
the winner tends to be the more economically stable country, these countries tend to be the destination countries as well, this means that there is large amount of economic growth that is coming into these countries this results in us seeing a large increase in the amount of wealth going into these given countries. this wealth is normally provided by the highly skilled workers of the source country meaning that they are loosing their main economic assess, however they gain some it back via remittances. but they loose out, as they can’t build there own stable economy due to loss of there most highly skilled workers to the economically stable country, causing what we call the positive feedback loop
how much of Nepal’s GDP is remittances from the middle east
21%
what is one of the most popular locations for migration and why
the middle east, due to the economic opportunities that are available and that it is nearby to some of the country where people want to seek a better life outside of their origin country
state 1 main interregional flows
- highly skilled worker moving form China, India and Brazil to the USA, in the hope of finding work which has large economic rewards so that they can send migrant remittances back to their country of origin
why has intra - regional migration become more common
people moving small distances in the sense that they are able to find a better quality life but they do not have to take the same risks as they would if they were moving inter regionally
which country has the highest proportion of migrant flows within the EU
Romania (93%)
which two areas have some freedom of movement across borders
South America and Europe
what flow, has the largest share of global migrant stock?
South-South (36%) (82.3 million migrants)