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Question

Later events causing migration

Answer 1

- A8 accession 2004 - Indians expelled from Uganda under Idi Amin - restrictions on migration trigger rapid joining of families (bridge headers)

Answer 2

- Political – government policy - Economic – availability of jobs / wages - Environmental – physical isolation / accessibility - Social – attitudes towards migration and existing communities - Technological – available means of travel / knowledge of destination

Answer 3

Urban areas have more jobs, housing, services (health / education) - Rural areas have low population / threshold anyway BUT: - Rural areas attract certain types of people, e.g. elderly / wealthy / families - And if you can attract one group, and enough of them, that’s a threshold.

Answer 4

- Global scale = its mainly physical geography | - Smaller scale – its increasingly political, technological, and then social (1:1 interaction)

Answer 5

- Homogeneity = the population is all the same | - Heterogeneity = the population is diverse / all mixed up

Answer 6

- Differences in types of jobs, polish immigrants are generally working low wage jobs, while Indian may be migrating to work higher sector jobs on average. - People could cluster around religious monuments and places of worship, windburns generation could have expanded outwards from their original point of migration

Answer 7

process of neighbourhood change that involves its housing passing from one social group to another. Most filtering involves housing in an area moving down the social scale; as the former inhabitants move to better quality dwellings their previous homes come relatively cheaper and so accessible to lower income groups

Answer 8

- helps social group to keep cohesion - keeps cultural values by isolating from external influences - to maintain cultural specific amenities and services, halal meat

Answer 9

- help protection against attack - lack of trust - discrimination - eg, job related/ estate agents - language barriers

Answer 10

- sometimes they choose to - sometimes they are forced to - but it partly depends on your perspective... myths are perpetuated things that reinforce place identity artefacts - objects mentefacts - shared meaning sociofacts - shared behaviour

Answer 11

- conservative, white middle class society thinks other racial groups don't share the same values - so treats other racial groups as outsiders - so takes action to exclude him

Answer 12

- places have an identity - do you want to be 'out of place' - place identities are rarely accurate! they're more perception - and myth is often the basis for exclusion (by WASP) so - to test the myth, use census data as a key objective source of info

Answer 13

- starting at centre, with black ethnic group you get greater degree of filling - eventually the tolerance that whites have for black dissolves, and you get white flight - eventually the white move outwards - different groups have different tolerances - black prefer mixed areas - whites like mixed up to 10% black - sown yo hit 35-50% black, you get racial instability in ecological succession, and white flight occurs

Answer 14

- process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighbourhoods that were previously occupied by older immigrant groups

Answer 15

- evident in both US and UK - some ethnic groups are more clustered others - may be driven by exclusion by the majority white population

Answer 16

- in 2000, african American population was 33 million or 12% of the US population (275 million) - New York - 60% if african Americans live in blocks where they are 70% of the population - 66% in blocks where they are 90% of the population

Answer 17

- 86% white British, 3% ethnic minority - 1.4 million indian, 1.2 million pakistani - 450k Bangladeshi, 430k Chinese - 11% mixed heritage - London: 51% ethnic minority - diversity is not evem - homogeneity in some regions of the UK

Answer 18

whites don't mind blacks if blacks in minority (15-20%) | blacks like mixed communities, but minimum is 30%

Answer 19

- black population starts to build - white looks at situation - when it gets to 15-20% black they decide not to buy - eventually the tolerance that white have for blacks dissolves and white flight occurs - price comes down - blacks can enter newly vacated areas and at 20-30% black, you reach tipping point

Answer 20

black population grows

Answer 21

- familiarity of languages - retain culture - escape racism - helps protection against attack - own ethnicity already there - gov policies - inter marriages - access to cultural services

Answer 22

less economic mobility than those in less segregated ones

Answer 23

Regional and National influences shape characteristics (formal, statistical, real, imagined) - Derry - sectarian violence

Answer 24

Population structures and dynamics are a result of differences in fertility and mortality rates as well as international/internal migration. Slough - high fertility, birth rates, migration due to PEEST

Answer 25

How places can be represented in a variety of different forms, giving contrasting images - slough: 1937 poem, the office show 2000s, holiday Inn advert

Answer 26

Can be considerable variation in population characteristics - gender, ethnicity, both in and between settlements UK: diversity data + causes of post war migration

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