Migration Within and To the EU

Question 1

People move around within the EU _____ looking for better paid work.

Answer 1

Voluntarily.

Question 2

There are ____ _____ within the EU.

Answer 2

Economic migrations.

Question 3

People who live within the EU can do what in any other EU country?

Answer 3

Live and work.

Question 4

What happened in 2004?

Answer 4

10 eastern European countries joined the EU.

Question 5

What happened between 2004-2007?

Answer 5

More than half a million people from Poland came to the UK.

Question 6

Name 3 push factors why people moved from Poland?

Answer 6

High unemployment.
Low average wage.
Housing shortages.

Question 7

How many people were unemployed in Poland in 2004?

Answer 7

Around 19%.

Question 8

What were Poland’s wages like in 2004 compared to average EU wage?

Answer 8

About 1 third of the average EU wage.

Question 9

How many dwellings were there for every 1000 people?

Answer 9

300 dwellings.

Question 10

Name 3 pull factors that made people move from Poland to the UK?

Answer 10

Ease of migration.
More work and higher wage.
Good exchange rate.

Question 11

What does the term ‘ease of migration mean ‘?

Answer 11

The UK allowed unlimited migration in 2004.

It was restricted in other EU countries.

Question 12

In the UK there was a big demand for what?

Answer 12

Tradesmen - Plumbers.

Question 13

What was the exchange rate like for Polish people?

Answer 13

The pound was worth a lot of Polish currency.

Sending money back to Poland made a big difference.

Question 14

What happened to Poland’s population?

Answer 14

It fell by 0.3% between 2003 and 2007.

Question 15

What else fell in Poland and why?

Answer 15

The birth rate fell as most people who left were young.

Question 16

What happened to the shortage of workers in Poland?

Answer 16

Slowing the growth of the economy.

Question 17

How was the Poland’s economy boosted?

Answer 17

By the money which was sent home by emigrants.

Question 18

How much money was sent home by emigrants?

Answer 18

3 billion euros, in 2006.

Question 19

What happened to the UK’s population?

Answer 19

It went up slightly.

Question 20

What did immigration do to the UK’s economy?

Answer 20

It boosted it.

A lot of the money earned in the UK was sent back to Poland.

Question 21

What opened in the UK?

Answer 21

New shops selling polish products.

Question 22

What did the new shops in the UK do?

Answer 22

Provided for the Polish communities.

Question 23

Many Poles were Catholics, what did this mean?

Answer 23

Attendance at Catholic churches went up.

Question 24

Who else migrates to the EU?

Answer 24

Refugees.

Question 25

Huge numbers of people migrate from ___ to the ___?

Answer 25

Africa.

EU.

Question 26

Give an example of how African people get to the EU?

Answer 26

Crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Spain.

Question 27

What happened in 2001?

Answer 27

45,000 emigrants from Africa were caught.

Refused entry into Spain.

Question 28

Many of the migrants are refugees from where?

Answer 28

Wars in central and western African countries.

Question 29

What happened in 1991 and 2002?

Answer 29

2 million people forced from their homes because of a civil war in Sierra Leone.

Question 30

Where is Sierra Leone?

Answer 30

West Africa.

Question 31

There are only what for African refugees of war?

Answer 31

Push factors.

Question 32

Why did the Africans flee?

Answer 32

Threat of violence or death during war.

Question 33

What happened to the African economy?

Answer 33

It reduced.

Fewer people contributing to the economy.

Question 34

What happened to African families?

Answer 34

They separated when fleeing.

Question 35

There was social tension between who?

Answer 35

Immigrants and Spaniards.

Question 36

African people filled gaps in the labour market, why?

Answer 36

Because they are unskilled workers.

Question 37

What happened to the average wages for unskilled job?

Answer 37

Fallen because so many people who want jobs.

Question 38

What happened to Spain’s birth rate?

Answer 38

It increased, because lots of young immigrants.