Post Colonial Migration

Question 1

What is the difference between illegal migrants and asylum seekers?

Answer 1

Asylum seekers have the right to be a migrant and seek asylum but if they are declined and still remain a migrant, they are then classed as an illegal migrant.

Question 2

What are some issues with illegal migrants?

Answer 2

0.5 mil. in the UK
Pay traffickers 1000 - 4000 euros each
Causes bandit killing on Sahara desert route
Lethal fishing boat routes
Deportation after being caught

Question 3

What is the concern with asylum seekers?

Answer 3

That many of them are actually economic migrants

Question 4

What migration occurred in 1950?

Answer 4

Black Caribbean economic migrants came to London and the West Midlands

Question 5

What migration occurred in 1960?

Answer 5

Pakistani & Indian from poorer areas to London, West Midlands

Question 6

What migration occurred in 1970?

Answer 6

Expulsion of Asians from Uganda
Black African from former colonies
Both to East London

Question 7

What migration occurred in 1980?

Answer 7

Vietnamese boat refugees

Question 8

What migration occurred in 1990?

Answer 8

Chinese students from China, Singapore, Malaysia

Balkans conflicts brought Croatians

Question 9

What migration occurred in 2000?

Answer 9

Iraqi & Somali asylum seekers

Question 10

What migration occurred in 2010?

Answer 10

EU Open Borders attracted Poles for economic reasons

Schengen agreement implemented

Question 11

What is the Schengen agreement?

Answer 11

treaty which led to the creation of Europe’s borderless Schengen Area.