Reasons for Migration

Reasons for Migration

IGCSE Geography

​Lesson Objectives

• ​Define the following:

  • ​Migration

• ​Describe the reasons for migration

  • ​Push and Pull

  • ​Voluntary and Involuntary

Open Ended

Share one observation from the video.

​Humans are always on the move.

​Migration

​the movement of people across a specified boundary, national or international, to establish a new permanent place of residence.

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​'permanent' - lasting more than 1 year

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​Migration has economic, social, cultural, political, and environmental impacts.

Poll

How many countries have you visited so far?

• 1-3

• 4-6

• 7-9

• 10 or more

Reasons for Migration​

Push and Pull

Poll

Would you like to live in this location?

• No thanks!

• Let me think about it first.

• Yes!

Poll

Would you like to live in this location?

• No thanks!

• Let me think about it first.

• Yes!

Poll

Would you like to live in this location?

• No thanks!

• Let me think about it first.

• Yes!

Poll

Would you like to live in this location?

• No thanks!

• Let me think about it first.

• Yes!

​Push Factors

​negative conditions at the point of origin that encourage or force people to move.

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​eg. high level of unemployment

​Pull Factors

​positive conditions at the point of destination that encourage people to migrate.

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​eg. higher wages in another country or region

​The nature of push and pull factors varies from country to country (person to person) changes over time.

​PUSH and PULL Activity

Worksheet

Reasons for Migration​

​Voluntary and Involuntary

Open Ended

Interpret the chart. Share one observation.

​Barriers to migration

​Immigration laws present the greatest obstacle to most potential international migrants as countries attempt to manage immigration carefully, being most eager to attract people whose skills are in demand.

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​Chart: Passport power rankings

​Voluntary and involuntary (forced) migration

​Voluntary - individual has a free choice about whether to migrate or not.

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​​Involuntary - people are made to move against their will and this may be due to human and environmental factors.

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​Other examples of involuntary (forced) migration

• ​Explusion of Asian from Uganda in the 1970s when the country was ruled by Idi Amin, a dictator.

• ​People moving out of Yugoslavia because of the policy of ethnic cleansing.

• ​Natural disasters: volcanic eruptions, floods, droughts, etc.

Refugee?

​Refugee - people forced to flee their homes due to human or environmental factors and who cross an international border into another country.

Internally displaced people?

Internally displaced people - people forced to flee their homes due to human or environmental factors, but who remain in the same country.

​Next meeting

• ​migration trends

• ​internal population movements

• ​depopulation and coutnerurbanisation

Poll

How confident are you?