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Population and Migration assessment
Population Pyramids. What are they?
Is a pyramid showing the age population.
Population pyramids are used because workers need to know how much housing needs to be done to give a home to everybody. And also knowing how many caring homes need to be built for the elderly dependants.
Push factors
Lack of infracstructre
Lack of jobs
Lack of transport
Poverty
Hazards
Isolation/loneliness
To be in a better / wealthy environment / country.
Remittances
Low standard of education, healthcare and living
Lack of contact
Lack of services and safety
Mexico to USA Migration causes - pull factors.
More opportunities for education
Migration happens to the USA because they want a better life, better resources and more money (economic migration)
Remittances
Uniting with family
Higher wages
Higer standard for education, healthcare, living and safety
A better life
More/better job opportunities
Mexico to USA migration causes - push factors.
People are starving
They want to achieve to cross the border
Lonelyness/seeing family/people that they have been separated from.
They already have got a bad life.
Escape from poverty
Lack of contact with people in the USA
Low standard of education, healthcare, living and safety
They want a better life
Mexico to USA migration impacts on Mexico
Population decreases
The better educated people crossing the border leave the less educated behind.
Remittances (6 million)
People can get higher wages
More opportunities
Less crowding, competition and less pressure on services
More men emigrate than women
Gender imbalance
Leaves young and elderly dependants by themselves.
Some locations have lost a third of their population
Less people to be house
More land
Less resources given out because there would be less people
Mexico to USA migration impacts on the USA
Cause more demand for resources
USA people say Mexican people drain the USA's economy
The USA's population is already quit full.
Brings new language, food and music
More people to fill out jobs that are unwanted for people in the USA
Boost tax revenue (the money that people and businesses must pay the government, in order to pay for the things that are important to us and our families, our local communities and the country.)
Immagrants normally increase crime rates
More housing needed
Cost of managing the border
Not many people speak English
Could bring money to the USA
The wall
Is 2000km long (a third of the border)
Its objective is to stop migrants crossing the border.
The biggest border crossing in Mexico is in San-Diago. About 75 million people cross the border a year.
People get separated on both sides of the border.
The border/wall started in 1994.
Border control
Border control stops 5000 migrants a day
Border control officers take migrants to a migration camp so they can be checked.
The biggest border crossing in Mexico is in San-Diago. About 75 million people cross the border a year.
Visas
Highly skilled migrants could move
May decrease the number of migrants crossing the border a day
Do nothing
Helps the poor
Family could finally be with each other
It is the cheapest option
Allows more unwanted jobs to be filled in
Meanings
Remittances - Half a family in the USA and the other half in Mexico. The half in the USA send money back to their family in Mexico, so not all the money goes to the USA's economy.
Urbanisation - happens when more people move to live in cities. When people move from the countryside to the cities, this is called rural-urban migration
System - A series of connected parts that work together.
Birth rates - Number of babies born per 1,000 of population.
Immagration Where a person enters another country.
Inputs - Where things are added to a the system (by births/in-migration.
Net migration loss - Where more people leave a country than enter it.
Outputs - Where things leave the system (by deaths/out-migration).
Natural increase - When Birth Rate is greater that Death Rate.
Natural decrease - When Death Rate is greater than Birth Rate.
Emigration - Where a person leaves the country.
Net migration gain - Where more people enter the country than leave it.
Death Rates - Number of deaths per 1,000 of population.
Refugee - Somebody who has move out of their home country to escape violence.
Economic migration - moving for a better wage or money.
Invader - somebody trying to take over somebody else's land/territory
Elderly dependants - depends on economically active people. Their age are normally 65+
Economically active - don't depend on people. They look after elderly and young dependants. Their age are normally 16-69
Young dependants - depend on economically active people. Their age are normally 0-15
Brain drain - more educated people cross the border, leaving the not so educated people behind.
Pull factors
To be in a better / wealthy environment / country
Remittances
A better life
Economic migration
Better safety
For better roads
Better transport
More / better jobs
Fertile land (Land or soil that is fertile is able to support the growth of a large number of strong healthy plants).
Political security
Friends and family may already be their
Better service
Arguments
For migration
People want to live a more happier life.
Family could unite from both sides
More unwanted jobs could be filled in
Brings new food, language and music
Against migration
The USA's population is already full
There would be more demand for resources because there are more people