GEO305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Immigration, Mobilities, Transnationalism
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Increasing circularity: decreased level of state control, have put strict levels of border controls, mobilities accelerating in recent years as a result of globalisation, transport technologies, global info systems o cheaper than it was 30 years ago. Business linkages: become important because it sometimes becomes permanent does not result in everyone having a singular home o questions the source destination model. Sources of international emigrants: biggest movement from mexico to usa. 2: sources of migrants in eastern europe restructuring driving people out of western europe, movement from africa into europe. International migration huge movements of people across a border (refugee regions) not always long term or distant migration. India: philippines second largest source of migrants. Relative number of immigrants in relation to base population: so much in migration of permanent kinds into oecd countries. These are countries who are high in migration in relation to their population.
