GEOG 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Forced Migration
12 Apr 2016
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Migraion 2: why people migrate, where do people migrate, how do governments afect migraion. Push pull factors: push factors condiions and percepions that arise in a place of origin that introduce people to leave. Availability of work, cost of living, environmental: pull factors aspects of the new locaion that are atracive t migrants and inluence their decision to go. Availability of work, cost of living, environmental: employment is a big factors to why people leave or come (push or pull) Work visa: economic condiions, power relaions, poliical circumstances. Australia: armed conlict and civil war, environmental condiions. Flooding, drought: culture and tradiion, technological advances. Global migraion lows: un esimates in 2010 214 million people (3. 1%) on the move , forced migraion, e. g. Canadian immigraion policy: french/briish late 1600, english, irish, scoish were next to come 1800, ukrainians, hungarians, oukhabours, scandinavians, russians. Immigraion act: preferred naionaliies, two disinct immigraion streams. Demographic stage (1800-1900) no oicial policy but increasing diversity.
