MIGRATION

Question 1

What is maent by migration/

Answer 1

It is a person who goes to live in another place.

Question 2

What is meant by internal migration?

Answer 2

It is the movement of people from one place to another within a country.

Question 3

What is meant by international migration?

Answer 3

It is the movement of people between countries.

Question 4

What is an Emigrant?

Answer 4

They are people who leave a country.

Question 5

What is an Immigrant?

Answer 5

They are people who eneter a country.

Question 6

What is a refugee?

Answer 6

they are people who have been forced to leave their home country for fear of persecuation.

Question 7

What is meant by voluntary migration?

Answer 7

It is the free movement of migrants looking for an improved quality of life or personal freedom.

Question 8

What is maent by forced migartion?

Answer 8

It is when the migrant has no persoanl choice but has to move due to natural disaster or to economic or social imposition.

Question 9

What is meant by rural to urban migration?

Answer 9

It is when people move from the country side to a settlement.

Question 10

What is meant by a push factor?

Answer 10

It is a factor in a migrants old place of residence which caused them to move.

Question 11

What is meant by a pull factor?

Answer 11

It is a factor in the migrants new place of residence which caused them to move.

Question 12

The Jews moving to Isreal in the 1960’s is an examp,le of what type of migration.

Answer 12

It is an example of voluntary migration.

Question 13

Polish people moving to England after Poland joined the EU is an example of what type of migration.

Answer 13

It is an example of voluntary and economic.

Question 14

An estimated 300,000 people leaving Rwanda in the 1990’s due a civil war is an example of what type of migartion.

Answer 14

It is an example of forced migartion.

Question 15

List the four main reasons forced migartion may take place.

Answer 15

The main reasons are persecuation for reaons of race, erligion, politics, internal strife (civil war) or due to natural disasters such as drought or flooding.

Question 16

A massive volcanioc eruption would lead to whcih type of migartion.

Answer 16

It would lead to forced migartion.

Question 17

Explain why people would migrate from an area experiencing drought.

Answer 17

It could be because there is very little water so they cannot grow any food to feed their family. This leads to people becoming malnutrished and want to move to another area.

Question 18

Name two areas that have experienced a drought.

Answer 18

The areas are the horn of Africa (Ethiopia) or the South Eastern Australia.

Question 19

Give four reasons a migrant might experience difficulties when they move to a new destination.

Answer 19

The problems could be lack of qualification or skills making it difficult to find a job, they cannot speak the language, cannot afford health care or education, or cannot afford to buy a house so end up living in a shanty town.

Question 20

Give four reasons why people might move from a town or city in an MEDC to a village in the countryside.

Answer 20

The levels of crime, air pollution and noise pollution might be lower in the countryside than a large urban area. They might have gained a promotion at work so they can now afford to buy a house in the countryside and afford to commute to work.

Question 21

Is a low paid jobs either a push or pull factor.

Answer 21

It is a push factor.

Question 22

Which example would you use to answer a casestudy question on international migration.

Answer 22

You would use Poland to England.

Question 23

List three factors that might stop a person migrating from an African country to England.

Answer 23

They could be a lack of money to buy a ticket to travel to this country, they do not speak english, they cannot obtain a visa to enter the country.