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
Why people are leaving 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
African phone usage
2005 6% of all Africans owned a mobile phone, by 2015 this had risen to 60% because of falling prices and the growth of provider companies such as Kenya’s Safaricom
China sky train
Railways are the chief transport route linking rural and urban parts of China. Migrant workers travel in both directions along the route of the 1,500 km China-Tibet ‘sky train
Holbeck Hall Hotel,
significant landslide in June 1993
landslide began beneath the hotel. Over the next two days, heavy rainfall and water pressure exacerbated the situation, causing significant portions of the hotel to collapse into the sea.
Indian migrants in Dubai
Over a million making up 30% of the population
$415 billion returned to India as remittances
Superpower
Ability to project power and influence anywhere on earth to become a dominant world wide force
Soft power
Indirect forms of influence such as culture influence (persuasion)
Hard power
Use of military force and economic influence
Smart power
Skilful combined use of both hard and soft
Roman Empire
Britain had the largest empire in 1920 controlled 24% of land globally
Empires ended in 1950-1970 as maintenance after WW2 was high
Nigeria
Became fully independent in 1960
Series of dictatorship civil war 1967 and 1970
Power struggles affected Nigerias developement
Since 1999 stable government
Post colonial movement
Between 1950s and 1970s uk received migrants from the Caribbean, India, Pakistan
To fill labour jobs
African Union borders
Break down borders issuing e passports
Uk border control
Points based system to encourage a stronger workforce
USA borders
Green card to ensure they are economically stable
Russian elites
Bought wealthy homes in London and control interest in major European companies. Allows the Russian elite access to global financial markets
UK benefit as the combined total of bands and loans raised by Russian businesses in London 2004-2013 was over £250 billion
Geopolitical causes in central Africa
Between 1945 and 1970 gained back their independence causing instability
2 million refugees across Africa
Middle East geopolitical tensions
In recent years worlds largest source for refugees
Internal fighting and intervention
Diaspora
Post colonial links between states and political legislation permitting free movement
Indian diaspora
World largest 28million in 2016
People of Indian citizenship in almost every part of the world
More than 1 million in 11 countries
Mainly in USA, UK, Malaysia
Refugees Myanmar» Bangladesh
-Bangladesh hosting 1 million Rohingya refugees whom fled Myanmar 7 yr ago
-95% Rohingya households vulnerable
-joint response plan brings together 117 partners bringing food, shelter etc
UNESCO
193 countries protect the environment promotes peace and international cooperation
NATO
Military alliance
Protecting member countries
Tackles pirarcy
UN
Provides aid
Aims to promote peace and human rights
EU
Allows goods to flow freely among members
Significant global influence
Human trafficking Essex
2019 29 bodies of Vietnamese people found in a trailer
11 people convicted in UK and 19 in Belgium
