Migration

Question 1

Define migration

Answer 1

refers to the movement of people from place to place

-it can be internal within a society or international

Question 2

Define immigration

Answer 2

refers to movement into an area or society

Question 3

Define emigration

Answer 3

refers to movement out

Question 4

Define net migration?

Answer 4

the difference between the number immigrating and the number emigrating, and is expressed as a net increase or net decrease due to migration

Question 5

Migration trends for most of 20th century

Answer 5

the growth of the UK’s population was the result of natural increase (more births than deaths), rather than the numbers of people immigrating and emigrating

Question 6

What was the largest immigrant group to the UK from 1900 until second world war?

Answer 6

Irish

Question 7

Irish were the largest immigrant group when and why?

Answer 7

• from 1900 until second world war

mainly for economic reasons

Question 8

What immigrants were becoming the largest immigrant group in the UK ?

Answer 8

Irish
Eastern
Central European Jews

Question 9

What were refugees fleeing from?

Answer 9

persecution

Question 10

Which immigrants were coming to the UK during the 1950s?

Answer 10

Black immigrants from the Caribbean

Question 11

Which immigrants were coming to the UK during the 1960s and 1970s?

Answer 11

South Asian immigrants from
India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka

and by East African Asiana from Kenya and Uganda

Question 12

One consequence of immigration?

Answer 12

it produced a more ethnically diver society

Question 13

How many ethnic groups accounted for the total population in 2001 in the UK?

Answer 13

7.9% of total population

Question 14

One result of ethnic diverse society ?

Answer 14

greater diversity of family patterns in Britain today

Question 15

Throughout this period were more people leaving on entering the UK ?

Answer 15

More people left than entered the UKI

Question 16

What does it mean when a country is a net exporter of people?

Answer 16

more people have emigrated to live elsewhere than have come to settle in the UK

Question 17

In what time period was the UK a net exporter?

Answer 17

mid 16th century until the 1980s

Question 18

Since 1990, the great majority of emigrants have gone to …?

Answer 18

USA
and
Old Commonwealth countries

Question 19

What are the Old Commonwealth countries?

Answer 19

Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa

Question 20

Main reasons for emigration

Answer 20

economic

-both in terms of ‘push’ factors such as economic recession and unemployment at home, and even more so in terms of ‘pull’ factors such as high wages or better opportunities abroad

Question 21

In the earlier part of the century there were often…?

Answer 21

Labour shortages in the destination countries

Question 22

After 1945- british economy performance

Answer 22

the relatively poor performance of the British economy compared with that of other industrial countries acted as an incentive to emigrate

Question 23

Economic reasons for migration contrast with those of some other groups?

Answer 23

driven to migrate by religious, political or racial persecution

Question 24

The effect of migration on the dependency ratio is….

Answer 24

complex

Question 25

The effect of migration on the dependency ratio

ON THE ONE HAND
WORKING AGE

Answer 25

the fact that migrants are mainly working age, reduces the dependency ratio

Question 26

The effect of migration on the dependency ratio

ON THE OTHER HAND
FERTILITY

Answer 26

immigrant women tend to have higher fertility rates, which in the short term contributes to a higher dependency ratio by adding more children to the population

Question 27

The effect of migration on the dependency ratio
HOWEVER POINT
AVERAGE AGE

Answer 27

this also reduces the average age of the population and in due course produces more workers, thereby lowering the dependency ratio by adding more children to the population

Question 28

The effect of migration on the dependency ratio
FINALLY POINT…

Answer 28

to complicate matters further, evidence suggest that the longer an immigrant group is settled in the country, the close their fertility rate comes to reh nation average