Globalisation (3)

Question 1

Urbanisation

Answer 1

increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas

Question 2

Economic migrant

Answer 2

a migrant whose primary motivation is to seek employment.
Migrants who already had a job may have set off i in search of better pay, more regular pay, promotion or a change of career

Question 3

Refugee

Answer 3

people who are forced to flee their homes due to persecution whether or an individual basis or as part of a mass exodus due to political, religious or other problems

Question 4

Intervening obstacles

Answer 4

barriers to a migrant such as a political border or physical feature eg desert or mountain

Question 5

Natural increase

Answer 5

diff between a society’s crude birth rate and crude death rate
migrant population such as those found in the developing world megacities, usually has a high rate of natural increase
due to the presence of a large number of fertile young adults and relatively few older people

Question 6

Centripetal migration

Answer 6

movement of people directed towards the centre of urban areas

Question 7

Brownfield site

Answer 7

Abandoned or derelict urban land

previously used by commercial or industrial companies

Question 8

Cultural traits

Answer 8

culture can be broken down into individual component parts such as the clothing people wear or their language

Question 9

Cultural imperialism

Answer 9

practice of promoting the culture/language of one nation over another

Question 10

Soft power

Answer 10

the global influence a country derives from its culture its political values and it diplomancy.
much of the USA’s soft power has been created by Hollywood, Harvard, Microsoft and Michael Jordan

Question 11

Cultural landscape

Answer 11

the landscape of a place that has been shaped over time in characteristic ways by the combined action of natural and human processes

Question 12

Absolute poverty

Answer 12

when a persons income is too low for basic human needs to be met potentially resulting in hunger and homelessness

Question 13

Millennium development goals

Answer 13

eight specific goals for the global community crated and the UN Millennium summit in New York in 2000

Question 14

Relative poverty

Answer 14

persons income is too low to maintain the average standard of living in a particular society.
Asset growth for very rich people can lead to mor e people being in relative poverty

Question 15

Informal sector

Answer 15

Unofficial forms of employment that are not easily made subject to government regulation or taxation

Question 16

Post accession migration

Answer 16

the flow of economic migrants after a country has joined the EU

Question 17

Diaspora

Answer 17

the dispersion or spread of a group of people from their original homeland

Question 18

crude birth rate

Answer 18

the number of live births per 1000 people per year

Question 19

Nationalist

Answer 19

a political movement focused on national independence or the abandonment of policies that are viewed by some people as a threat to national sovereignty or national culture

Question 20

Post-colonial migrants

Answer 20

people who moved to European countries from former colonies during the 1950’s 1960’s and 1970’s.
the UK received economic migrants from the Caribbean, India, Pakistan,Bangladesh and Uganda