Population - Migration

Question 1

What is migration within a country called?

Answer 1

Internal displacement.

Question 2

What is migration to another country called?

Answer 2

International migration.

Question 3

What is the word for moving out of a country?

Answer 3

Emigration

Question 4

What do you call people moving into a country?

Answer 4

Immigrants.

Question 5

What are illegal immigrants.

Answer 5

People who don’t have valid visa’s or passports (permission) to enter a country are called illegal immigrants.

Question 6

What are asylum seekers?

Answer 6

People who do not have valid visa’s or passports and have been detained at a border to make a case for staying. Usually this happens when it is unsafe for them to return to their country.

Question 7

What is migration?

Answer 7

Migration is the movement of people to live in a different place.

Question 8

What is a push factor?

Answer 8

Negative factors which cause a person to want to move away from an area.

Question 9

What is a pull factor?

Answer 9

Positives perceptions of an area (not always true) which attract someone to that area.

Question 10

What is voluntary migration? Give a reason for it.

Answer 10

When a person make the decision to move.
Reason:
- Movement of work
- hope of better quality of life. From poorer countries to richer countries.
- joining family
- searching for higher income.

Question 11

What is forced migration? Give a reason for forced migration.

Answer 11

Migration that is compulsory, people have little choice of moving.

Reasons:

• human wars
• natural disaster

Question 12

Give an example of forced migration that is going on at the moment.

Answer 12

Forced migration from Syria.

Question 13

Where is Syria?

Answer 13

Shares borders with Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Lebanon.

Question 14

How did the Syrian civil war start?

Answer 14

2011 - peaceful protests against president Assad. Due to corruption in the government.
The government openly fired on the crowd (many young people from wealthy families were killed)

2013 - USA Got involved when the gov began using chemical weapons.

Since then many rebel groups have formed. All with different agendas. And aims. Making it really hard to make peace.

Question 15

What are the impacts of migration on Syria?

Answer 15

6 million people internally displaced to escape the escalating violence.

• lost homes, possessions, jobs, seperate from families.
• widespread poverty.

Question 16

What are the affects of migration from Syria, on neighbouring countries?

Answer 16

There are how refugee camps that were set up in 2011.
They are now incredibly overpopulated.
= no privacy
= low sanitation
= recourses are more scarce and distributing them fairly is a huge problem.

Question 17

What are the affects of migration from Syria to Jordan?

Answer 17

Refugees fled to cities
= overcrowding, strain on recourses.
- prices go up, competition for jobs = decreasing wages.

House prices have tripled.

Question 18

What are the causes of forced migration from Syria?

Answer 18

-Safety: by May 2014, the death toll surpassed 16,000ppl.
- Lack of recourses
- houses bombed/ destroyed
= 6 million internal displacement
= 3 million internationally displaced.