Social, Political & Environmental Tensions

Question 1

International migration is a feature of globalisation and has been encouraged by:

Answer 1

Open borders - e.g., the large numbers of post accession migration following eight eastern European countries joining the EU in 2004

Deregulation - the removal of ‘red-tape’ for businesses

Foreign Direct Investment which have encouraged TNC workers to move abroad

Question 2

All this migration has created This has created culturally mixed societies and thriving migrant diasporas throughout the world

What are diasporas

Answer 2

The spread of people from there original home

Question 3

However, tensions can easily arise between immigrant groups and communities in the host country for example:

Answer 3

Migrants require housing, jobs and education which could put certain services under strain which could lead to tensions between communities
Immigrants may feel that they are being discriminated against

The rise of extremism in Europe e.g., there are some nationalist parties that oppose immigration

Question 4

What are the socio economic factors that cause tensions

Answer 4

Cultural erosion

competition for employment and wage depression

Question 5

what are the political factors that cause tensions

Answer 5

Autocratic vs democratic

populist policies greater demand on governments

Question 6

What are the environmental factors that cause tensions and exampe

Answer 6

shared resources water

Nile (Ethiopia want to dam it for energy to supply rapidly growing pop but the Egyptians need it for agriculture Egyptians threaten to blow dam up

Question 7

info about polish diaspora

Answer 7

in Balham formed in WW2 many have welcomes however some concerned about rising birth rate filling up school

Question 8

Info about UK diaspora in islands in Mediterranean

Answer 8

Due to free movement allowed British enclaves have been identified by ethnoscape such as bars or cafes this has caused some strained cultural relations like in calella

Question 9

Etnoscape meaning

Answer 9

. The ethnoscape refers to human migration, the flow of people across boundaries.

Question 10

enclaves meaning

Answer 10

a portion of territory surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct.