13F migration

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what is the definition of migration?
the movement of people from place to place
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what is the definition of immigration?
the movement of people into a society
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what is the definition of emigration?
the movement of people out of a society
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what is the definition of net migration?
the difference between the number of immigrants and emigrants
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what is an asylum seeker?
someone who needs to move from their country because their safety is at risk
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what is a migrant?
people who move because of push and pull factors
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what are push factors?
reasons why people leave a place?
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what are pull factors?
reasons why people move to a place
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who were the biggest immigrant group up until the 2nd world war?
Irish
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where did post war immigrants come from?
europe, canada and america
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where were immigrants arriving from in the 50s-70s?
the caribbean, india, pakistan, bangladesh and africa
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what did the office for national statistics find about UK migration levels?
migration to the UK is falling from within the EU but rising from countries outside of the EU and migration from the EU has fallen to its lowest levels since 2014
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what impact does migration have on the population?
population growth, higher fertility rates, lower average age, reduction of dependency ratio
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what is globalisation?
barriers between societies disappearing and breaking down causing people in other countries to become more connected
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what are the ways the world has become more globalised?
growth of communication systems and technology, global media and news, global markets and business, expansion of the EU
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what are the three trends of global migration?
acceleration, differentiation and feminisation of migration
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what is acceleration?
the increase in the rate of migration
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what percentage has migration increased by?
33%
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what is differentiation?
where different migrants will move for different reasons
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what are the different types of migrants?
temporary workers, asylum seekers, legal/illegal workers, students, permanent workers
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what did Cohen find about migrants?
he found 3 types of migrants; citizens with full citizenship rights, denizens who were welcomed by the state and henlots who are exploited and treated as slaves
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how has migration become feminised?
the expansion of services in western countries increasing female demand, western men and women being unwilling to perform services, demand for emotional labour, nannies and sex workers, demand for domestic, care and sex work
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how many migrants are women?
almost half
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what are migrant hybrid identities?
when migrants have different identities from living in more than one place
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what did Eade find about migrant identities?
Bangladeshi Muslims had hierarchical identities based on importance seeing themselves as muslim first, then bangladeshi, then british
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what did Eriksen argue about migrant identities?
globalisation has caused migrants to be less likely to see themselves as belonging to one country/culture due to moving constantly
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what are the names of the two migration policies?
assimilation and multiculturalism
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what is assimilation?
when countries encourage immigrants to become more like the locals by adopting the language and culture of the country
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what is a criticism of assimilation?
it can have the opposite effect making migrants want to emphasise their cultural differences, it also encourages racism by blaming migrants for social disorder
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what is multiculturalism?
when countries accept that migrants have different cultural identities and allow them to show their differences
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what did eriksen find about multiculturalism?
there were two types of diversity within migrants; shallow diversity and deep diversity
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what is shallow diversity?
things from different cultures which people are willing to accept such as food and music
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what is deep diversity?
things from different cultures which people are less willing to accept such as veiling of women and arranged marriages
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