GM: 1.a Spatial patterns of migrant flows

Question 1

Population changes

Answer 1

(births- deaths) +/- international migration

Question 2

International migration

Answer 2

• lack uniformity
• difficult to obtain accurate, reliable, comparable stats
• many undocumented and illegal migrants

Question 3

Long term migrant

Answer 3

• who moves to a country for at least a year

Question 4

Short term migrant

Answer 4

• who moves to a country for at least 3 months but less than a year

Question 5

Net migration

Answer 5

• difference between numbers of immigration and emigration

Question 6

Main reasons to emigrate the UK

Answer 6

• employment opportunities
• retirement
• family reunification

Question 7

Inter- regional migration

Answer 7

• many move from conflict zones to Europe
• e.g Libyan port to Sicily
• e.g Turkey to Greece

Question 8

Lee’s Migration Model

Answer 8

• push and pull factors ( attract or force people to move)
• intervening variables (e.g language, cost, coasts, mountain ranges)

Question 9

Intra -regional migrants

Answer 9

• within major groups e.g EU
• 1.7 million people moves form one EU country to another (2014)

Question 10

Schengen Agreement

Answer 10

• allows freedom of movement within most of the EU
• across internal national borders

Question 11

most driving factor

Answer 11

• economic
  ( changes of earning, greater opportunities, living standards, ease of return)