Migration

• What is migration

  The movement of people from place to place.

  Can be forced - Wars, natural hazards

  Or voluntary - better economic opportunities
• Middle east refugee crisis 2015

  Refugees fled their homes in Syria in search for a better life in Europe

  
  

  4 million fled to temporary camps

  
  

  Thousands made the dangerous journey across the mediterranean in unsafe boats

  
  

  In 2015 Germany would process asylum claims for anyone who reached there

  
  

  A mass amounts of migrants entered

  
  

  Good for diversity, employment, job opportunities
• Economic migration to the UK

  Uk benefit from them - multicultural

  
  

  Since 2004, 1.5 million migrants have moved to the Uk

  
  

  They can earn up to 5x more in the UK

  
  

  most pay tax which is good for the UK economy

  
  

  They are prepared to do manual jobs such as working on farms

  
  

  They put pressure on services such as health and education
• How does International migration cause uneven development?

  As tech spreads, more people are aware of what is going on in other places

  Uk receive many migrants from NEEs who have invested in them - Brain drain