Key Terms:
- Rural-Urban Migration: Migration from the countryside to towns and cities
- Refugees: People who are forced to move due to war, famine, political persecution or natural disaster
- Economic Migrant: People who move for quality of life reasons usually economic gains
- Natural Increase/Decrease: The rise and fall of the population due to birth and death
- Net Migration: Balance between immigration and emigration
- Internal Migration: Movement of people within a country
- Megacity: A city with population over 10 million people.
Types
Of Migrant:
- Displaced Person: Forced to move by war, famine, disaster or fear of persecution
- Voluntary Migrants: Permanent move for work or quality of life reasons or a temporary move for work.
- Illegal Migrants: Voluntary individual move for work, an organised move as part of criminal activity
Push
& Pull Factors:
- Push Factors: Poverty, conflict, natural disasters, crop failure. They send remittance back to the country they came from
- Pull Factors: Education, healthcare, safety, housing, bright lights
Problems
In Megacities:
- Rapid population growth, lack of clean water, lack of green space, pollution, overcrowding, gridlock, slums
Global
Hub:
- A place or region that provides a focal point for global activities e.g trade and Shanghai
- They allow a country to become globalised as TNCs set up headquarters in that area
Elite
Migration:
- When someone is rich moves to a country that is also rich e.g Russian celebs to London
- Why: Push – Russian Mafia, pull – London lifestyle
Effects
Of Migration.
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Source Country:
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Host Country:
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Economic
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Increase in taxes |
Remittance |
Social & Cultural
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Bringing in culture such as
Food |
Loss of workers |
Political &
Environmental
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New skills perhaps as
politician |
Environment gets better
because lack of people in country.
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