Migration

Question 1

Define: economic migrant

Answer 1

Moved to a new country for employment

Question 2

Examples of pull factors

Answer 2

NHS, education system, stronger economy, jobs, family links, English language

Question 3

Examples of push factors

Answer 3

climate change, natural disasters, racism, war, political persecution, religious persecution

Question 4

Which group of people moved to the UK in the 1840s due to the potato famine in their own country?

Answer 4

Irish

Question 5

Why did many Jews migrate to the UK in the 1930s/40s?

Answer 5

Persecution from Hitler’s Germany

Question 6

What name was given to migrants from the Caribbean who came to Britain from 1948 to help work in the NHS?

Answer 6

Windrush Generation

Question 7

Why did many Ukrainians migrate to the UK in 2022?

Answer 7

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Question 8

What legal commitments does the UK have to migrants?

Answer 8

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
Human Rights Act

Question 9

What challenges might migrants face when they arrive in the UK?

Answer 9

Trauma, language difficulties, discrimination and racism, finding employment, leaving family behind

Question 10

When did Britain vote to leave the European Union in “Brexit”?

Answer 10

2016