migration

Question 1

what is the definition of an international migrant?

Answer 1

a migrant who moves to a different country around the world.

Question 2

what social reasons do people migrate for?

Answer 2

to work or to study, to live with family in another country.

Question 3

what economic factors do people migrate for?

Answer 3

to send money home to families, to get better paid jobs for their trades than what they would get in their home country.

Question 4

what political factors do people migrate for?

Answer 4

war, EU - just because they can and can get visas.

Question 5

what is meant by the term net migration?

Answer 5

the difference between immigration and emigration.

Question 6

what is meant by the term ‘intervening obstacle’ referred to in the lee model of migration?

Answer 6

things which can prevent you moving from your country of origin to the country you want to be including literacy levels, terrain, transport routes, job opportunities, cultural factors and national policies.

Question 7

what is intra-regional migrant flows?

Answer 7

migrants moving to an area which is still in the same region a what they were already in, e.g. staying within Europe

Question 8

what are inter-regional migrant flows?

Answer 8

when migrants move from one place to another which is in a different region e.g. around the world

Question 9

what are the specific reasons for increased intra-regional migration following the expansion of the EU since 2004.

Answer 9

8 countries added and people move for employment and to get remittance, this is as its easy and its easy to get a visa and to actually get into the country

Question 10

what are migrant remittances?

Answer 10

when migrants send money they’ve earned back to their families in their country of origin

Question 11

how can migrant remittances cause growth in a country of origin?

Answer 11

multiplier effect, families could start own businesses and pay taxes, so on so forth

Question 12

how can migrant remittance cause growth in a host destination?

Answer 12

filling up jobs and needing to pay tax

Question 13

how can migrant remittances cause inequalities in country of origin?

Answer 13

brain drain, not equal, you’ll have people who are really poor who don’t get remittance and some people may be really rich if they get migrant remittance.

Question 14

how can migrant remittances cause inequalities in host destination?

Answer 14

changes the demographic and can causes conflict culture.

Question 15

how does global migration promote stability, growth and development in the host destination.

Answer 15

it allows for skilled workers to work and be paid to live a healthy life, paying into the tax system which then works with the multiplier effect

Question 16

how does global migration promote stability, growth and development in the country of origin

Answer 16

migrant remittance multiplier effect.

Question 17

how does migration cause inequalities conflicts and injustices for people and place in the host destination

Answer 17

racism language barriers, detention centers on arrival border requirements

Question 18

how does global migration cause inequalities conflicts and injustices for people and place in the country of origin

Answer 18

migrant remittances cause for some families to be better off and have more money than other in the areas allowing for better houses, healthcare and education than others

Question 19

what is economic globalization

Answer 19

how the world is more connected through money, investments, trade, asean.

Question 20

how has economic globalization led to the emergence of new source areas and host destinations

Answer 20

Dubai, invested in oil companies, India, Coca-Cola invested in the area, rural migration

Question 21

why is there a high concentration of young workers

Answer 21

they are better workers, fitter and can gain more skills

Question 22

why is there a high concentration of female workers

Answer 22

moved for education, better women’s rights.

Question 23

why are south to south flows now equal to those in south to north corridors

Answer 23

south to south as there are better jobs in sectors including oil, e.g. India to Dubai or within Africa

Question 24

what are the difference between an asylum’s seeker and a refugee

Answer 24

asylum’s seeker: left their home country and enter another country as they want to live there
refugee: someone who moves out of fear of death or persecutions.

Question 25

how is conflict and persecution impacting the numbers of refugees

Answer 25

there’s more refugees a lot of conflict in Syria Afghanistan, Ukraine, increasing the numbers of people moving

Question 26

what are the challenges and opportunities facing countries accepting refugees

Answer 26

overpopulation, Lebanon struggles with resources for their own country’s before refugees

Question 27

which countries have straight immigration polices. which country’s is pro emigration

Answer 27

Germany is pro emigration, Australia and America have strict immigration rules.

Question 28

what is bilateral flow

Answer 28

the biggest route has always been Mexico to USA but newer routs are like Cambodia to Thailand

Question 29

CS: what is interdependence

Answer 29

when 2 countries rely on eachother

Question 30

CS: what are the current patterns of immigration

Answer 30

increased migration between brazil, Mercosur and Chile. net migration loss of half a million in each 4 year periods

Question 31

CS: what are the current patterns of emigration

Answer 31

slowing down of emigration of lower skilled economic migrants to the USA, increased emigration of highly skilled workers.

Question 32

how have immigration and emmigration changed over time

Answer 32

between 19th&20th century brazil didnt reciecve migrants but has sped up with skilled workers

Question 33

Economic, political, social and environmental interdependence
between Brazil and Portugal.

Answer 33

former colonys similar language