Global Migration Definitions🌍

Question 1

Economic Migrants💰

Answer 1

• person who moves from another country, region or place
• involving permanent or semi-permanent change of residence
• to improve standard of living or job opportunities👔

Question 2

Migrant Remittances💰➡️🏡

Answer 2

• money transferred from one country to another, sent home by migrants to their family, friends & community🏘❤️

Question 3

Refugees

Answer 3

• person who has moved outside their country of nationality or usual domicile because of genuine fear of persecution or death💀

Question 4

Asylum Seekers

Answer 4

• person who seeks entry to another country by claiming to be a refugee

Question 5

Population Change Equation

Answer 5

• Population Change = (births - deaths) +/- International Migration

Question 6

Net Migration

Answer 6

• difference between the number of people moving permanently into an area and out of that area
• difference between numbers of immigrants and emigrants for a particular country
• 2014 - UK🇬🇧 estimated net migration gain of 318,000 - 2015 - 333,000

Question 7

Immigration⬅️

Answer 7

• in-migration of people into a country, which involves a permanent change of residence

Question 8

Emigration➡️

Answer 8

• out-migration of people from a country, which involves permanent change of residence

Question 9

Push Factors➡️

Answer 9

• negative factors which operate in a migrants current location

Question 10

Pull Factors⬅️

Answer 10

• perceived advantages of a potential destination which attract migrants

Question 11

Multiplier Effects

Answer 11

• process by which a new or expanding economic activity in an area creates additional employment as its employees have money to spend on goods👜👙👗👡 & services⛑
• as the wealth of an area increases it stimulates more economic activity

Question 12

Diaspora

Answer 12

• the spread of an ethnic or national group from their homeland
• eg Kurds from Kurdistan - crosses the border of 4 Middle Eastern counties - 28-30 million Kurds - 2-3 million in Germany 🇩🇪

Question 13

International Migrant Stock

Answer 13

• number of people born in a country other than that in which they live - includes refugees

Question 14

Bilateral Migration

Answer 14

• the migrant flow between 2 countries

- migrant numbers, their composition, directions of flow🔃 = important characteristics

Question 15

OECD

Answer 15

• Organisation for Co-Operation and Development is an intergovernmental economic organisation founded to stimulate economic progress & world🌍 trade

Question 16

Intervening Obstacles

Answer 16

• these could occur at any point from origin to destination include: - costs💵, oceans🌊, rivers🏞, mountain ranges🏔, weather⛈🌦🌈, health🏥, transport⛵️🛶🚢🚘🚞✈️🚛, language, traffickers, slavery, forced labour