Chapter 4 paragraph 5: Migration and the European Union

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

At the end of this lesson

you can explain the main migration patterns in Europe

What is the best thing about working from home?

What are the challenges when working from home?

What are questions you yet have on this chapter of geography?

To Western Europe

• Economic Migrants
• Mostly from Poland, also from Romania
• People have jobs like nurses and docters in their own country, but come to the Netherlands for example to work in factories (unskilled work)
• The wages are much higher in Western Europe, even in unskilled jobs

To Eastern Europe

• Workers became scarce because of the migration to Western Europe
• Population decrease: emigration + negative birth rate
• Immigration (workers) from China -> factories can keep on working

Fort Europe

Migration and the European Union

• Open borders: the largest flow goes to the 'richer' parts, and a small flow of elderly people from old people who move to warmer countries
• Migrant workers from outside of Europe come to work here (refugees). (Asylum-seekers, if they don't get asylum, some of them stay illegal)
• Fort Europe: the EU has strict rules for immigrants

To work

• Read paragraph 5
• Make assignments 1 t/m 12 and 15