GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Core Countries, Internally Displaced Person, Forced Migration
22 Nov 2017
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Population migration: the spatial movement of population from one place to another. Different spatial contexts: international (global migration) inter-regional (national or regional migration) Key issues of interest to geographers: migration questions geographers ask and are interested in migration. Cultural, political and economic, characteristics of migrants e. g. who are they? how many of them are there? how far have they travelled. Political boundaries crossed e. g. provincial sc. national; number of boundaries etc. Migration: a form of population redistribution (over populated to under populated) Example: north africa to europe, east asia to north america, latin america to north. Migration is dealing with redistributing the population. Many core countries depend on immigration to sustain population and economic growth. Destination countries: low natural population growth, high economic & social development, reasons why destination countries attract immigrants. Source countries: high natural population growth, low economic and social development, people looking for opportunities elsewhere. Net gainers: take in more immigrants than they lose.
