Death, Globalisation and Migration

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What is death rate
Number of deaths per 100 of the population per year
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Name 5 reasons why has there been a decline in death rate
- Tranter (1996) less diseases
- Better nutrition
- Safer working conditions
- Higher incomes
- Less smokers
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What is life expectancy
How long a person born in any given year can be expected to live
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Death rate declining means...
Life expectancy increasing
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What is immigration
Movement into a society
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What is emigration
Movement out of a society
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What is net migration
Difference between immigrants and emigrants
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What is globalisation
Barriers between different countries are disappearing and there is more interconnectedness
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What are 3 results of globalisation
- Better communication systems
- Better global media
- Creation of global markets
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What is a push factor (emigration)
Factors in the mother society causing emigration from it
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What is a pull factor (immigration)
Factors in a host society causing immigration to it
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What did Ehrenreich and Hochschild (2003) say?
Care work, domestic work and sex work in global west increasingly done by women from poorer countries
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What are the 3 reasons why?
- More demand for female labour
- Western women/men not as willing to perform domestic labour
- State fails to provide adequate children
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What are transnational identities?
Sustaining global ties to both the home and host countries
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What did Eriksen (2007) say?
Globalisation has created more diverse migration patterns. People move back and forth through networks instead of setting in one country permanent.
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What is assimilation?
When immigrants adopt the language, values, customs of the host culture
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Name 5 reasons why has there been a decline in death rate

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- Tranter (1996) less diseases
- Better nutrition
- Safer working conditions
- Higher incomes
- Less smokers

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What is life expectancy

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Death rate declining means...

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What is immigration

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