Week 1 Flashcards
What are pull factors vs push factors?
Pull factors are factors that bring you to a country
Push factors are factors that make you leave a country
What are voluntary vs. forced migration?
voluntary migration - leaving at own will = immigrant
forced migration - being forced to leave - refugee
What is international migration?
Movement of persons who leave their country of origin, or the country of habitual residence, to establish themselves either permanently or temporarily in another country
Give examples of facilitating factors of migration
things that support migration: Air transportation, mass media
communication technologies
How does the sovereignty of states effect international migration?
they create criteria which allow people to migrate, and politics effects migration standards
What are the multidimensional aspects of migration?
Political, economic and social reasons
Explain transnationalism
Going back and forth between country of origin and host country,
Permanant back and forth movement
mobilization of cross-country networks
Define Brain Drain, and explain implications?
A significant emigration of educated or talented individuals
drain can result from turmoil within a nation, from there being better professional opportunities in other countries or from people seeking a better standard of living
Explain bonded labour
labour is demanded as a means of repayment for a loan. The person is then tricked or trapped into working for very little or no pay, often for seven days a week
The value of their work is invariably greater than the original sum of money borrowed
Who is considered a refugee?
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
Explain the impacts of migration on origin and host countries?
Countries of origin: brain drain, and remittances (xawalo)
host country - changing policies and diversity
What are micro, macro, and meso levels of analysis?
Macro- structural, global
Meso- institutions (work, family)
Micro- individual (migrants)
