Migration and Globalisation

Question 1

Push Factors

Definition

Answer 1

Factors encouraging someone to leave their home country

Question 2

Push Factors

Examples

Answer 2

Escaping poverty or famine
Lack of jobs/Unemployment
War
Political/religious persecution

Question 3

Push Factors

2013 UK Data

Answer 3

Better career + job opportunities, higher earnings, better lifestyle or a fresh start
Former immigrants returing to EU countries they came from

Question 4

Pull Factors

Definition

Answer 4

Those that attract them to a new country

Question 5

Pull Factors

Examples

Answer 5

Better opportunities for jobs or study
Higher standard of living
Better healthcare + education
Political or religious freedom
Joining relatives

Question 6

Pull Factors

2013 UK Data

Answer 6

Main pull factors work related and formal study, then family
Around 5% fleeing persecution (minimal)

Question 7

Effects of Globalisation

More Immigration from the EU

Answer 7

And more emigration to the EU
In year ending March 2014, EU immigrants 38% of all immigrants

Question 8

Effects of Globalisation

More Undocumented Workers

Answer 8

‘Pulled’ by prospects of a better life, ‘pushed’ by poverty in own countries, lack of skills or wealth to enter legally
Growing influx - exploited by UK employers and people traffickers
Home Office estimates 500,000 - 800,000, but difficult to substantiate

Question 9

Effects of Globalisation

More Asylum Seekers

Answer 9

End of March 2014, around 24,000 seeking asylum
Widely percieved to be large group, in reality only 5% of migrants, barred from working, near zero gov support
Often held in immigration detention - Chief Inspector of Prisons said ‘a shocking lack of humanity’

Question 10

Effects of Globalisation

Greater Cultural Diversity

Answer 10

Different cultures/ways of life come into contact
In family life, growing numbers from different cultural backgrounds, more ‘hybrid families’

Question 11

Effects of Globalisation

Changing Families

Answer 11

Migrants from Eastern Europe tend to have larger families
Beck and Beck-Gernsheim - Growth of ‘world families’ and ‘distant love’
Chambers - more global family networks, migrants support + maintain family relationships in other countries
And growing trade in surrogate motherhood, mail order brides + family personal care
ACPO Report- 17,000 of est 30,000 living on street prostitution migrants - 70% victims of trafficking