Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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