MIGRATION

Question 1

What is migration?

Answer 1

What is migration?
● Migration is the movement of people from one place to another
● At a global scale, uneven development can lead to unequal flows of people
between places as people in LICs migrate to NEEs or HICs for a better quality of
life, better opportunities or to escape war or persecution
● Migration can also occur within a country as people move to regions with
greater economic opportunities

Question 2

Why do people migrate?

Answer 2

● People migrate due to a number of push and pull factors
● Push factors are things that push you away from an area
● Pull factors are things that pull you to an area

Question 3

Push factor examples?

Answer 3

● Poor quality education
● Few educational facilities
● High unemployment rate
● High crime rate
● Poor environmental quality with poor air quality and little open space

Question 4

Pull factor examples?

Answer 4

● High quality education with lots of good quality schools and universities
● Lots of jobs which are well paid
● Low crime rate
● Safe area
● Good environmental quality with lots of open space

Question 5

Impacts of migration on the UK?

Answer 5

London has also been greatly affected by migration. The large number of financial and knowledge-based job opportunities has attracted people from elsewhere in the UK and the rest of the world. … It is estimated that up to a third of all international migration into the UK is into London.i