Migration tends to involve groups of people moving from a common source region to a similar destination.
It can be either internal or international.
INTERNATIONAL- movement of people form Eastern Europe to the UK is an example of an international stream.
INTERNAL- movement of people from the Highlands of Scotland to the South East of England.
Migration streams occur when the migrants have similar reasons for leaving in the first place and their choice of destination may have been influenced by a number of factors.
Migrants from their former colonies often move to their colonial rulers' country such as the West Indians to Britain or Algerians to France.
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Economic Migrant
People who move to another country or simply to abtain work and earn money.
Such migrants frequently return home after they have earned their desired amount of money.
Many of the East European migrants that moved to Britain are said to fall into this category.
Many are single men living in cheap accomodation and working long hours in jobs, often below their skills capability.
According to government figures, many have already returned home.
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Illegal Migrants
Some people are unable to fufil the legal requirements set down by their chosen destination country and are prepared to enter illegally.
These migrants travel undercover across Europe and then attempt to gain access to Britain via ferries concealed in the back of lorries.
These people are willing to risk a lot to come to Britain and are prepared to take low wages unregulated work places.
On occasions some have died on the journey.
In 2000, 58 illegal Chinese immigrants suffocated in the back of a container lorry on their way from Zeebrugge to Dover.
In 1999, 2500 illegal immigrants died attempting to gain access to Europe.
Ilegal migrants are a vulnerable group of peple.
Some will have paid large sums of money to illegal gangs who agree to smuggle them into their chosen country.
Those who manage to gain entry often find themselves exploite by gangs through very low wages or working in unsafe conditions.
in 2004, 22 illegal migrant died in Morecambe Bay picking cockles in dangerous tidal conditioons.
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Asylum Seekers
These are people who have come to a new country without the required legal documentation to gain entry.
They ask permission to remain on the basis that they will face torture or death if they return home.
Such people will have fled persecution and there is an internationally agreed list of countries deemed likely to use torture.
The number of asylum seeker has increased- some are seeking entry purely for economic reasons.
This means governments undertake rigorous checks to verify the asylum seekers' claims.
This can be a complicated process where a person can be held in a holding centre until they are verified, which can take several weeks.
According to Home Office figures. there were 24,000 asylum applications in 2007.
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Refugees
Defined by the United Nations as "a group of people unable to live safely in their home country".
These are people who have limited choice either in the decision to leave or in their ultimate destinations.
Natural disasters can casue a refugee movement.
In Burma, many people are still living in refugee camps following the cyclone in May 2008.
Wars, ethnic cleansing and any form of religious or political discrimination have caused huge displacements of people.
According to United Nations, there are now approx 10 million refugees and 13 million people displaced within their own country.
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