Population Movement

Question 1

How is population growth rate calculated?

Answer 1

Natural increase + net migration

Question 2

To what extent is population movement occurring?

Answer 2

• Globally, there were almost 232 million international migrants in 2013
• between 1990 and 2013, the number at international migrants worldwide rose by 50%
• in 2013, 3.2% of total population lived in countries other than that of their birth

Question 3

What is international migration?

Answer 3

According to UNESCO an international migrant is:
‘Any person who lives temporarily or permanently in a country where they were not born, and had acquired some significant social ties to this country’.

Question 4

Which country has the highest migrant population? What is it?

Answer 4

USA - 45.8 million

Question 5

What are the two classifications of factors that lead to migration?

Answer 5

Push factors (factors that push a person to leave their current home)

Pull factors (factors that draw a person to a destination)

Question 6

Name three push and three pull factors that lead to migration.

Answer 6

PUSH FACTORS

• unemployment
• poverty
• drought or floods

PULL FACTORS

• potential for unemployment
• higher standard of living
• fertile land
• family and friends

Question 7

What are the factors that influence population movement?

Answer 7

SOCIAL
- family

HISTORICAL
- religion

ENVIRONMENTAL

• climate, land formation, vegetation, water, soil
• natural disasters

ECONOMIC
- income generation, employment

POLITICAL
- laws, policies and regulations

Question 8

What is irregular migration?

Answer 8

A migrant without documented approval to remain in a country.
Also known as ‘illegal migrants’.

Question 9

What are the benefits and disadvantages of migration to the host country?

Answer 9

BENEFITS

• boosts supply of low cost labour
• economic growth

DISADVANTAGES

• language difficulties
• limited skill or education traps them in unskilled jobs with no prospects to develop their career.
• locals may loose jobs to incoming workers

Question 10

What are the benefits and disadvantages of migration to the donor country?

Answer 10

BENEFITS
- important source of funds
(Remittance flow to developing countries totalled $436 billion in 2014)
- reduce poverty

DISADVANTAGES

• families are separated
• loss of young and able working people

Question 11

What are refugees?
What are the reasons for refugees?
What are the general responses to refugees?

Answer 11

Forcibly displaced people.

• act to flee persecution
• war
• natural disaster
• human induced climate change
• refugee warehousing
• return to the country of origin once the situation is safer
• resettlement into the country of which they have fled, or to a third country