Migration into Europe
- Created by: Hayley Petts
- Created on: 12-01-13 09:32
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- Migration
- Economic Migrant- someone who moves for a better payed job
- Voluntary Migrant - people who move because they want to
- Asylum Seeker - people who move due to being at risk e.g war/persecution
- apply for permission to live in a country
- Illegal Immigrants- people who enter a country without permission
- Post Colonial Migration
- After WW2 empires broke up
- caused flow of people into Europe
- British Gov. invited former colonies due to shortage of labour + lots of work to rebuild damaged economy
- 60,000 Indians in mid-50's
- Shortage of UK trained doctors meant there were many Indian ones
- currently more than 1mn who describe themselves as Indian
- today there are 550,000 who define themselves as Caribbean
- Immigrants from former french empire migrated to France in 1950=70's
- 1mn people fled Algeria between 1962-64 after it became independent in 1962
- After WW2 empires broke up
- Consequences
- Demographic
- Source Countries- reduced proportion of working + reproductive age
- Host Nations increase of working + reproductive age
- increased birthrates for host nations
- "5% of children born in UK 2006 had one parent migrated from another country
- Environmental
- travel - causes more pollution - long distant places
- increased GHGE causing global warming
- travel - causes more pollution - long distant places
- Social
- Illegal immigrants
- legal access to health care, employment or benefits
- risk of being deported
- often carry out dangerous work for low pay
- China 2004 -20 illegal immigrants drowned when picking cockles in morecambe Bay UK
- Illegal immigrants
- Cultural
- Racial tensions
- 2011 -London Riots
- mixing
- Indian food become so popular new dishes have been created
- Racial tensions
- Political
- change in government policies
- points system- migrants are allowed to stay if they have enough points
- BNP has become more popular due tho their opinion on immigration
- change in government policies
- Economic
- host countries loose out-migrants send money back home
- $25bn sent back to Indian from other countries
- host countries loose out-migrants send money back home
- Demographic
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