migration

Question 1

what is migration?

what is immigration?

what is emigration?

what is net immigration?

what are push and pull factors?

Answer 1

movement of people can be from a rural to an urban area

immigration
movement into a country

emigration
movement out of country

net immigration = difference between number of immigrants and emigrants

push factors are negative things that makes a person want to leave in terms of
economic = lack of employment opp
political = war
environmental = natural disasters
social= wish to join your family members who live in a different country.

and pull factors are things that want to make you go to a country

Question 2

what are 2 consequences of impacts or effects of immigration?

Answer 2

1. ethnically diverse society = britain population use to be predominantly white but now the uk is multi faith ethnic society
2. younger age structure= more people of working age people who come to the uk tend to be younger and so work contributing to society and economy.

Question 3

what are 2 effects of globalisation on migration

Answer 3

1. acceleration = increased internal migration - more people are moving from country to country more than even before.
2. differentiation = has caused different types of migrants. for e.g permanent settlers, temporary workers , students etc. according to vertovec this has created superdiversity whereby migrants are different in terms of there legal status, country of origin and reason for their migration.

Question 4

migration as political issues

Answer 4

assimilation = a gov policy that encourages immigrants to adapt to the norms and values of their host society e.g adapting a full British way of life. 1960s bussing out was apart of this policies.
evaluation = assimilation policies are seen as racist because they assume the immigrants culture inferior to host society.

2. multiculturalism= is policy that accepts that migrants want to keep some aspects of their own culture so these aspects are accepted by state and wider society
   evaluation= criticised as only accepting shallow diversity such as food whilst rejecting other aspects such as veiling of women.