Lecture 5 Migration in the world

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Lecture 5 Migration in the world

Goals

• You know what types of migration and migration reasons there are. 
• You can explain why economic growth and development in poor countries often leads to more emigration. 
• You can analyze maps and graphs related to migration.

Internal migration   move within your own country

International migration:

move to another country

Exit = Emigrant

Settle (in) = Immigrant 

Migration pattern

People settle in another country and from your mother country you call these people emigrants

-> Someone who leaves a country to settle elsewhere.

In the country where people settle from another country, these people are called immigrants

-> Someone who enters a country to settle there.

Wereldwijd 250 miljoen internationale migranten 

Why do people migrate?

Economic reasons : better job/ higher income

Social reasons: family migrants (family formation and family reunification)

Political reasons: refugees 

Ecological reasons: natural disasters 

Economic  reasons

Mainly Labour Workers 

= Largest group of migrants

- International students make up

an increasingly large

group!

Social reasons

Family migration

People move to another country for: 

Family formation 

Family reunification

Political reasons

Refugees

Fleeing war or because they are persecuted for their beliefs, opinions or sexual preferences.

Ecological reasons 

Natural disasters:

floods, tornadoes, 

earthquakes etc.

Chain migration 

The term chain migration

 refers to a social process through which people migrate from one place to another, either within a country or to another country. The migrants follow others, who have previously migrated after they learn of better opportunities. This is motivated by social relationships with those already in the preferred destination

Lubach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rso-RUb3NHE&t=231s