Migration Flashcards
Venezuela
7.7 million ppl left for protection
Hyperinflation as lack of goods so unaffordable to live
Define globalisation
The process where the world is becoming increasingly interconnected by integration and interdependence of the global economy. Trade of goods, services and communication
EasyJet
More affordable for people to travel linking to a shrinking world.
Cheap flights and lots of aircraft’s.
In 2014 more than 65million passengers carried
Nigeria
Inequality of wealth
Conflict
51% poverty
Climate change issues
High unemployment
Religious and ethnic issues
Social impacts on migrants
In camps adults can’t work
90% children can’t be educated
Life tough in camps especially for vulnerable people
Human rights watch NGO document raps in Nigeria IDPs camps
Boats into Europe
2015, 800 people died when a boat capsized off the Italian coast
Economic costs of refugees in Europe
£15000 cost a year to cater 1 refugee
Chinas great migration
Before 1978 china was poor and politically isolated country. Central planning in order to improve agriculture and industry wasn’t successful.
18% lived in city now 55%
Positioned itself as a global manufacturing hub as had cheap labour
Land grabs Tanzania
Authorities mounted a brutal campaign to evict distinctive ethnic groups of the maasai. Lack the education and knowledge to secure territories. MNCS take over hundreds of thousands of land turning in to block farms to export crops. Eviction notice to atleast 23 villages
Flow of refugee from Myanmar to Bangladesh
Bangladesh host 1 million Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar 7 year ago
UNHCR protect
Funding appeal of $852.4 million
95% of Rohingya household are vulnerable
Australia refugee system
Since 1970/ a skilled based system in place to increase skill pool
Must pass a points-based system
Illegal migration hardened
1992 mandatory detention centres for Asylum seekers
Offshore centres on manus island
Illegal migration reduced
Reports of suicide, rape at offshore detention centres
Before granted visa must have no diseases
Sky train
Vancouver, Canada
Operates above ground
Improves mobility by reducing congestion providing fast transport
Minimal environmental impact