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What is the role of migration in population change?
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A-level Geography G2 (1.3 - What is the role of migration in population change) Mind Map on What is the role of migration in population change?, created by RoryFlynn2 on 07/05/2013.
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What is the role of migration in population change?
Voluntary migration
Mexico to USA
1 million Mexicans per year
Illegal immigration big issue in the US
Gender imbalance - men often leave women behind
Working community in Mexico weakened
Push factors
Poor medical facilities
1800 people per doctor
Jobs are low paid
$3750 GNP
55% adult literacy
40% unemployment
Pull factors
Higher paid jobs
$24,750 GNP
Better medical facilities
99% adult literacy rate
Good medical facilities
400 people per doctor
Many jobs for low paid workers
22% of entire Mexican population live in USA
Also make up 10.3% of US pop
Poland to UK
Between 500,000 - 600,000 poles in UK today - 3rd largest minority group 1st is India
Push
Unemployment 18.2%
40% in some places
GNP $12,700
Pull
Unemployment in UK 5.1%
GNP $30,900
Lots of jobs for migrants
Low paid/ unwanted
Transmigration within Indonesia
World's 4th largest country
Java overpopulated
Farmers presented with incentives to move to Kalimantan
'Mega Rice Project'
Locals lose lands
Resort to logging as land is being lost anyway
Plot of land given (2 ha) to make a living off of
Destructive - Swampland and forests flattened for new land
Land often not very fertile
Requires expensive fertilisers
Chemicals pollute waters
Most cannot make a living off of land
Initial rations not enough
Forced migration
Hurricane Katrina
Estimated 450,000 to 600,000 families displaced
Evacuated citizens relocated across the 50 states and other major cities - mostly Houston
Families separated
Stress placed on those states and cities
Iraq War
Caused up to 1 million internally displaced persons
Estimated a further 1.6 - 2 million people have fled the country (nearly 7% of total population)
Many have moved to Jordan and Syria
Caused great demographic change for both governments
Increased poverty in areas of refugees and asylum seekers
Roughly 40% of middle class believed to have fled
No desire to return - economic sector struggles
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