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International Migration

International migration happens when people move across borders to live or work. This GCSE Geography quiz explores reasons, impacts, and patterns of people on the move worldwide.

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Fascinating Fact:

Economic migrants move mainly to improve their standard of living, find work, or send remittances home to support their families.

In GCSE Geography, international migration is studied to understand why people move between countries, how flows are mapped, and what this means for source and host nations at different levels of development.

Key Terms

International migration: When people move from one country to another for at least a year, often for work, study, safety, or family reasons.
Push and pull factors: Push factors drive people away from an area, while pull factors attract them to a new place, such as jobs, safety, or better services.
Remittances: Money that migrants earn in another country and send back to their families or communities in their home country.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

What is international migration in GCSE Geography?

In GCSE Geography, international migration is the movement of people across national borders to live in another country for a long period, often for work, study, safety, or family reunions.

What are common push and pull factors for international migration?

Common push factors include poverty, lack of jobs, conflict, or natural hazards. Pull factors include better wages, safer living conditions, political stability, and access to education and healthcare.

What impacts can international migration have on countries?

Source countries may benefit from remittances but lose skilled workers, while host countries can gain labour and cultural diversity but face pressure on housing, services, and integration policies.

Try These Related Quizzes

1 .

The term 'human capital flight', is better known as brain drain. This is the movement of intelligent, well-educated individuals from their native lands to other nations with better pay and conditions. Former European colonies in Africa suffer a high level of brain drain. Which of the following is a positive impact of brain drain?

The investment in that person is lost to their native country

They may retire back to their native countries or send money home to family members

Their skills are no longer available to their native country

They won't be around to pass knowledge and skills on to the next generation

Since these colonial nations often speak English as a second, or even first language, it is easy enough for them to move to the UK or USA and gain employment - thus taking those skills out of their native country

2 .

How is a refugee defined?

An individual moving to another country in the hope of improving their lives

An individual that has left their home nation and has no new home nation to move to

A person that is suffering religious or political persecution

An individual that is applying to move to live in the UK

Refugees may be unable to return home due to a genuine fear of death or persecution

3 .

What does the term immigration mean?

People moving into a country where they do not have citizenship

People moving back to their native country

Large numbers of people leaving their native country

When a country has no border controls and allows mass movement

Immigration is often discussed in term of the negative impacts. However, people may be attracted to a country for various reasons, including their skills meeting that country's labour shortages

4 .

What does the term emigration mean?

Moving into a new country to settle permanently

Returning to your native country after a period away

Leaving your native country to settle somewhere else

Movement between countries

Emigration can be due to push factors from the home country (like unemployment, or security risk), or pull factors from another country (higher wages, better standard of healthcare etc.)

5 .

Why do some people disagree with economic migration into the UK?

They believe that people want to enter the UK and immediately claim benefits

They know that certain industries rely on economic migration

They worry that refugees will change Britain

They don't believe that these people really have any problems in their home nations

Economic migration is different to those with genuine refugee status. Economic migrants can return to their homelands if they have to

6 .

Which of these is a push factor for emigration from the UK?

High wealth

Cooler, wetter climate

Good access to education

Political stability

One reason for migration from the UK to Spain is the warmer and sunnier climate. This leads to many people retiring in places such as Spain, reducing the spending power of the grey pound (money spent by retirees) in the UK

7 .

War, famine, and natural disasters may lead to migration from the effected country to a poorer, neighbouring country. Which of the following is a positive of people fleeing to an impoverished nation, for the destination country?

Strain on limited resources

Possible risk of disease being transmitted across the border

International aid may be able to assist and put in place resources that can be used in the long term

Cultural change may occur as the individuals and communities settle in the host country and import their own traditions

People moving from the Darfur region of Sudan to eastern Chad have been forced to live in refugee camps, putting a huge strain on the resources of Chad

8 .

Which of the following is a push factor for migration?

Higher employment rates

More wealth

Political stability

Flooding

Push factors will force a person to leave a nation, sometimes without a definite idea where they will settle

9 .

Migration into the UK has been encouraged during some periods of history. Immediately after World War II Britain encouraged migration from other Commonwealth countries. Why did Britian need immigration?

Britain didn't have enough workers

It was thought that war might break out and it was safer in Britain

The army needed to be expanded in case of another war

It was thought these people would bring money with them

A combination of loss of life during the war and a need to build up the country after the destruction it suffered during the war, meant that a larger work force was needed

10 .

Which of the following is not a type of short-term migration?

Competitive sports

Medical treatment

Retirement

Short term job position

Retirement can be a reason for long term international migration - meaning that the UK loses the so called 'grey pound' (money that is spent by pensioners in the local economy)

You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Migration

Author: Ruth M