Summary: Migration, Soverignity And Idenity

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• 8.1 Globalisation has led to an increase in migration

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• In 2014 How many people live in a country they were not born in

  More than 230 million

• What percentage of the world's population live outside a country they were born in

  Between 3-4%

• Knowledge of migrants in China moving from provinces to costal cities

  Sinchuan (province) has an outflow of above 7.5 million and Donguan (coastal city) has inflows of above 7.5 million.

• Which group of people are being forced to North west China

  Uigher muslims

• How many workers were unemployed in Poland in 2004

  1 in 5 (hotspot in Gdansk)

• What are the pull factors for Polish people moving to the Uk

  • Able to earn five times more in the UK
    
  • There was job avaliable - such as in food prosessing and packaging 

• What are the Problems of polish migration to the Uk

  1. Each year around £4 billion is sent back to Poland - money which is not invested into the Uk economy
     
  2. Brain dread in Poland (nearly half of buisnesses surveyed in 2007 citied that the lack of skilled workforce was a barrier to growth)
  3. Polish people can be exploited 

• What are the Benefits of Polish migration to the Uk

  1. Filled gaps in the Uk labour market - agricultural work for example 
     
  2. Uk becomes more Muliti cultured (Tescos now sells over 100 diffrent lines of polish foods)
  3. Benefits the employers - they can keep there wages low as migrants are willing to do jobs for lower wages 

• What has polish migration to the Uk have to do with globalisation?

  1. Movement triggered by Poland joining the Eu in 2004
     
  2. Globalisation has turned the Uk into a tertiary based economy  and the demand for lower waged work drives the movment of migrants   

• What are the Push factors for Chinese Rural to Urabn migration

  1. Poverty - about 362 million live on less than $2 a day 
     
  2. Agraian culture - farming the land and raising live stock and limited access to clean water, modern equipment and the threat of drought make finsing alternative work appealling