Migrants and Refugees

Question 1

Define International Migration

Answer 1

Hammerstad: “the movement of people across sovereign border to live in a different country to that of their birth”

Question 2

Define an asylum seeker

Answer 2

individual who is seeking protection/fleeing their country as they are in danger

Question 3

Define a refugee

Answer 3

a person who has been forced to leave their country to escape war, persecution or natural disaster

Question 4

How many migrants were their in 2000 and 2017

Answer 4

2000: 173 million
2017: 258 million

Question 5

How many people died in 2016 because of the migrant crisis

Answer 5

4,690 people

Question 6

When was the new York Declaration of Refugees and Migrants

Answer 6

2015

Declaration as opposed to a convention => it is not international law

Question 7

2 liberal perspectives for the cause of migration

Answer 7

1. Humanitarian perspective (poverty/war/state failure)
2. Institutionalist perspective
   - figure of migrants/refugees represents the failure of the state-system
   - lack of effective GG

Question 8

Marxist perspective for the cause of migration

Answer 8

All the factors of the humanitarian perspective are caused by the Global North