Population Movement Flashcards

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1
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How is population growth rate calculated?

A

Natural increase + net migration

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To what extent is population movement occurring?

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  • Globally, there were almost 232 million international migrants in 2013
  • between 1990 and 2013, the number at international migrants worldwide rose by 50%
  • in 2013, 3.2% of total population lived in countries other than that of their birth
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What is international migration?

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According to UNESCO an international migrant is:
‘Any person who lives temporarily or permanently in a country where they were not born, and had acquired some significant social ties to this country’.

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Which country has the highest migrant population? What is it?

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USA - 45.8 million

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What are the two classifications of factors that lead to migration?

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Push factors (factors that push a person to leave their current home)

Pull factors (factors that draw a person to a destination)

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Name three push and three pull factors that lead to migration.

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PUSH FACTORS

  • unemployment
  • poverty
  • drought or floods

PULL FACTORS

  • potential for unemployment
  • higher standard of living
  • fertile land
  • family and friends
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What are the factors that influence population movement?

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SOCIAL
- family

HISTORICAL
- religion

ENVIRONMENTAL

  • climate, land formation, vegetation, water, soil
  • natural disasters

ECONOMIC
- income generation, employment

POLITICAL
- laws, policies and regulations

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What is irregular migration?

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A migrant without documented approval to remain in a country.
Also known as ‘illegal migrants’.

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What are the benefits and disadvantages of migration to the host country?

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BENEFITS

  • boosts supply of low cost labour
  • economic growth

DISADVANTAGES

  • language difficulties
  • limited skill or education traps them in unskilled jobs with no prospects to develop their career.
  • locals may loose jobs to incoming workers
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What are the benefits and disadvantages of migration to the donor country?

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BENEFITS
- important source of funds
(Remittance flow to developing countries totalled $436 billion in 2014)
- reduce poverty

DISADVANTAGES

  • families are separated
  • loss of young and able working people
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What are refugees?
What are the reasons for refugees?
What are the general responses to refugees?

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Forcibly displaced people.

  • act to flee persecution
  • war
  • natural disaster
  • human induced climate change
  • refugee warehousing
  • return to the country of origin once the situation is safer
  • resettlement into the country of which they have fled, or to a third country
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