Key Terms 1
Migration in response to changing environmental conditions
Environmental Migration
Movement of people against their will; often associated with persecution or fear of persecution.
Involuntary Migration
Defined by the UN as the condition of a person living on less than US$1 per day.
Extreme Poverty
Bilateral Aid
What are remittances and how do they impact the receiving country?
Money sent to family and friends from migrant in a different locale.
Helps relieve poverty of family.
Helps economy of country.
Pull Factors
Legal Immigration
an inequality in which some people or countries are much better off economically than other people or countries.
Economic Disparity
Multilateral Aid
Explain brain drain and brain gain? What is its impact?
Brain drain --> Losing educated people from developing/poor countries.
Brain gain --> Receiving educated migrants from other countries.
Impact --> "skilled" people leave the developed country.
Temporary, legal migrants who move to a country to help it overcome a labour shortage.
Guest Worker (Temporary Migration)
Refugees
Foreign aid from wealthier to poorer countries.
Development Assistance
Reluctance on the part of donor countries and private donors to continue giving development assistance when it does not seem to improve conditions in the countries receiving it.
Aid Fatigue
Know the four questions we should know about any migration. Explain one of them.
Is it:
voluntary or involuntary?
Legal or illegal?
Temporary or permanent?
International or internal?
Remittances
People who are forced to move from their home area for reasons similar to those that motivate refugees. They remain with the borders of their country.
Internally displaced Persons (IDP)
Foreign aid provided by governments.
Official Development Assistance (ODA)
A largely unorganized group of NGOs and private citizens concerned about labour rights, the environment, human rights, and social development.
Civil Society
Of the nine causes of economic disparity in the text, explain the two you feel are the most important.
1) Colonialism
2) Lack of investment
3) Population Growth
4) Disease
5) Foreign Debt
6) War
7) Leadership Issues
8) Trade Inequities
9) Lack of Control
Brain Drain
This is migration that occurs to maintain the overall or working-age population in a country.
Replacement Migration
A private organization that exists for a particular purpose.
Non-governmental organization (NGOs)
The belief that one of the roles of government is to shift wealth to poorer citizens.
Income Redistribution
The text outlined potential solutions for economic disparity. Outline two of them.
1) Control their own economy for their own benefit
2) Reducing population growth in developing countries
3) Canceling or Reducing Debt and Interest
4) Creating a Union of Developing Countries
5) Leaders who are prepared to work towards the national good rather than their own benefit