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Short Answer
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Migration in response to changing environmental conditions

Environmental Migration

100

Movement of people against their will; often associated with persecution or fear of persecution.

Involuntary Migration

100

Defined by the UN as the condition of a person living on less than US$1 per day.

Extreme Poverty

100
  • Aid provided directly from one country to another.

Bilateral Aid

100

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.

200
  • Conditions in a place that make it attractive to potential migrants.

Pull Factors

200
  • Migration that occurs within recognized government programs.

Legal Immigration


200

an inequality in which some people or countries are much better off economically than other people or countries.

Economic Disparity 

200
  • Aid involving more than two donors.

Multilateral Aid

200

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.

300

Temporary, legal migrants who move to a country to help it overcome a labour shortage.

Guest Worker (Temporary Migration)

300
  • People who leave their country under threat of persecution due to their race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, or social or political group.

Refugees

300

Foreign aid from wealthier to poorer countries.

Development Assistance

300

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

300

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?

400
  • Refers to money sent to family and friends by a migrant in a different locale.

Remittances

400

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)

400

Foreign aid provided by governments.

Official Development Assistance (ODA)

400

A largely unorganized group of NGOs and private citizens concerned about labour rights, the environment, human rights, and social development.

Civil Society 

400

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

500
  • The loss of highly educated people from a country because of emigration.

Brain Drain

500

This is migration that occurs to maintain the overall or working-age population in a country.

Replacement Migration

500

A private organization that exists for a particular purpose.

Non-governmental organization (NGOs)

500

The belief that one of the roles of government is to shift wealth to poorer citizens.

Income Redistribution

500

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