Global migration

• Elite migration (London)

  • Foreign buyers were involved in 82% of property deals in Central London
  • Qatari Investments bought into The Shard
  • London housing now too expensive
  • Hyde Park development sold to a Ukrainian oligarchy for £136m
• Low-wage migration (Qatar)

  • World Cup 2022 - 6,500 deaths
  • From Nepal to Qatar
  • Labour camps - 600 share 2 kitchens
  • Disease, sanitation, bad QOL
  • Forced labour
  • Beaten by employers
  • Won't be let out of Qatar
• Host location

  Places which migrants move to.

  Typically gain due to migrants filling gaps in labour market.
• Economic impacts of global migration on source countries

  • Reduced unemployment
  • Brain-drain
  • Earns remittance payments
  • Increased employment - houses from remittance payments
• Social impacts of global migration on source countries

  • Brain-drain
  • More houses funded by remittance payments
  • Imbalanced population as many young people migrate
• Economic impacts of global migration on host countries

  • Received skilled foreign workers
  • Fills skills shortages in key areas
• Social impacts of global migration on host countries

  • Gains lower skilled workers to do jobs nobody wants to do
  • Sustains a growing leisure sector
  • Sustain middle-class lifestyle
  • Balanced population
  • Pressure on housing