MIGRATION

• Globalisation

  process in which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of increased trade and cultural exchange
• what has globalisation led to?

  increase in migration
• super-diversity

  migrants come from a wider range of countries and cultures, there are more class differences between migrants
• transnational identities

  a result of globalisation, migrants are less likely to see themselves as belonging to one culture
• assimilation

  encourage migrants to adopt values and customs of home country
• multiculturalism

  migrants maintain a separate, cultural identity
• immigration

  movement into a country
• emigration

  movement out of a society
• net migration


  difference between numbers of immigrants and emigrants
• migration timeline

  • 1900s, the largest group were the Irish
  • 1938 Jews escaping Nazis
  • 1945 Commonwealth countries invited
  • 1948 British Nationality Act, Windrush
  • 1970s unrest in Kenya and Pakistan
  • 1973 Britain joined EU
  • 1980s more countries joined EEC. meant immigrants from EEC have free movement
  • 1993 EEC became EU
  • 2000 applications of asylum as people fled warzones
  • 2004 more countries joined the EU
  • current greatest proportion are indians