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Migration Flashcards

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1
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What criteria can migration occur in? (Migration population)

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  • Scale
  • Direction
  • Distance
  • Decision making
  • Cause of movement
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What does migration tend to display and what does it mean? (Migration population)

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Distance-decay

Number of migrants declines as the distance between origin and destination increases

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What is net migration? (Migration population)

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The balance between immigration and emigration

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What are some reasons for voluntary movement between MEDC’s? (Migration population)

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  • Brain drain of the doctors from UK to USA

- Movement of East European workers to the UK following EU expansion (2004)

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What are some reasons for voluntary movement from LEDC’s to MEDC’s? (Migration population)

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Movement of Mexicans to the USA to work as casual employees in farming in California

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What are some reasons for voluntary movement from MEDC’s to LEDC’s? (Migration population)

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Movement of aid workers from the EU

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What are some reasons for voluntary movement between LEDC’s? (Migration population)

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Movement of migrant labour from Pakistan to oil rich nations e.g around the Golf

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What are some reasons for forced movement between MEDC’s? (Migration population)

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Repatriation of East Germany into the new unified Germany (1989)

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What are some reasons for forced movement from LEDC’s to MEDC’s? (Migration population)

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Movement of refugees and evacuees

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What are some reasons for forced movement from MEDC’s to LEDC’s? (Migration population)

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Via expiring

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What are some reasons for forced movement between LEDC’s? (Migration population)

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Movement of people from Rwanda to DRC due to genocide fears

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What is emigration? (Migration population)

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Movement out of a country

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What is immigration? (Migration population)

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Movement in to a country

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What is migration? (Migration population)

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Movement between places

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Since 1980’s, migration patterns have showed an increased in what? (Migration population)

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  • Illegal migration
  • Asylum seeking
  • Migration between MEDC’s
  • Short term migration
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Since 1980’s, migration patterns have showed an decreased in what? (Migration population)

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  • Legal migration
  • Permanent migration
  • Number of migrants who reunite with families
17
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What is economic migration? (Migration population)

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the choice of moving country for a better QOL

18
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What is a refugee? (Migration population)

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A person who is forced to leave their own country to escape war

19
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What is an asylum seeker? (Migration population)

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A person who has left their own country as a political refugee

20
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How many refugees were there in the world in 2003? (Migration population)

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22 million

21
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Why would numbers of asylum seekers increase? (Migration population)

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Economic decline

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What are the impacts of migration on the origin country? (Migration population)

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  • Younger population move out
  • Grey population
  • Lack of males
  • BR fall, DR rise
23
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What are the impacts of migration on the host country? (Migration population)

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  • Young adult population increases
  • Males migrate in
  • BR rise, DR fall
24
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What is the main model of migration and what year was it devised? (Migration population)

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The Lee model 1966

25
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What does the Lee model propose? (Migration population)

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  • Decision making process is key - Positives and negatives are weighed up
  • If obstacles to movement were overcome the migration would take place
26
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What is Lee’s model also known as? (Migration population)

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The push pull model

27
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What kind of factors did the decision making process include? (Migration population)

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  • Origin characteristics
  • Host characteristics
  • Nature of people
28
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What are the push factors of migration? (Migration population?

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  • Poor infrastructure
  • Inadequate job offers
  • Poor education
  • Natural disasters
29
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What are the pull factors of migration? (Migration population?

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  • Perceived improved SOL
  • Better health care
  • Future prospects
  • Varied employment
  • Higher wages
30
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What are the social impacts of migration on a source country? (Migration population)

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  • Fall in marriage rates
  • Break down of family structure
  • Loss of culture
31
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What are the social impacts of migration on a host country? (Migration population)

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  • Marriage rates rise
  • Social friction
  • New norms/values brought in
32
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What are the economic impacts of migration on a source country? (Migration population)

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  • Educated individuals leave
  • Remittances are sent back
  • Labour shortages
  • Farming declines
33
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What are the economic impacts of migration on a host country? (Migration population)

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  • Labour surplus
  • Increase in menial jobs
  • Reverse brain drain on return
  • Pressure on resources

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