international migration pattens in china
- Created by: AliceEGray
- Created on: 08-04-15 14:21
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- international migration patterns in China
- facts
- 600,000 migrants in china
- NET migration is -0.39 per 1000 populations
- number of Chinese overseas is 35 million
- illiteracy for males is 5% females is 14%
- who immigrates to china?
- many Chinese overseas have been offered incentives to return to their homeland, such as Chinese in Vietnam (200,000 Chinese had to return home) due to a conflict between the countries
- north Koreans fled their country in 2004 and many tried and succeeded in immigrating into china
- where people from china emigrate to?
- 1985 - 15,000 students emigrated to the USA
- a lot of Chinese workers also emigrated to the UK
- today - California = 600,000..... new York = 400,000
- push factors
- social
- overcrowding
- environmental
- farmland was scarce
- economic
- lots of people, not enough workers
- political
- one child policy
- social
- pull factors
- social
- family migrate to be with their families
- environmental
- grow a lot of rice in the paddy fields
- economic
- job opportunities
- political
- governments invest highly in technology in urban areas
- social
- positives of emigration
- reduces overcrowding
- reduce pressure on jobs and services
- negatives of emigration
- division in families
- elderly will stay resulting in an ageing population
- negatives of immigration
- pressure on housing
- pressure on public services
- positives of immigration
- increase the amount of money in china
- immigrants prepared to do the underpaid and low skilled jobs
- facts
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