Migration

Question 1

What is a long term migrant

Answer 1

A person who moves to a country other than their usual residence for a period of at least a year

Question 2

What is a short term migrant

Answer 2

A person who moves for at least three months but less than a year

Question 3

What is net migration

Answer 3

Difference between the number of immigrants and emigrants

Question 4

Why do people from the uk migrate

Answer 4

Employment opportunities
Retirement
Family reunification

Question 5

What are push factors

Answer 5

Negative factors which operate in a migrants current location

Question 6

What is a pull factor

Answer 6

The perceived advantages of a potential destination which attract migrants

Question 7

What are the intervening obstacles

Answer 7

Occur at any point between origin and destination

Cost
Physical features like oceans, rivers, mountains
Climate
Health
Transport
Cultural eg language

Question 8

What can explain high levels of intra regional migrant flows

Answer 8

Schengen Agreement - allows freedom of movement within most of the eu

Eu expansion - Lithuania, Poland, Cyprus etc joined in 2004. Croatia in 2013.

Economic - 2013 - 660000 poles in uk attracted by higher wages and ease of return