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Current spatial patterns in international migrant flows - Coggle Diagram
Current spatial patterns in international migrant flows
Numbers, composition and direction
Immigration from the UK (2019)
Poland: 830,000 polish immigrants in the UK
India: 830,000 in the UK
Emmigration from the UK
Australia: 1.28 million
Reasons for this:
Employment
Retirement
Family reunification
Total of 9.3 million foreign born people in the UK
Inter regional migration (Syria to Europe)
Lees migration model
Push factors
Pull factors
Intervening obstacles: oceans, rivers, health, transport.
Routes to europe
By land
By sea: e.g. in Italy in 2019 594 migrants arrived by boat
Intra - regional migrant flows (within the EU)
Migration in and between EU states in 2012:
In 2012, 1.7 million people resident in an EU country migrated to another EU country
2.7 million migrated from the EU to a non EU state
Migration figures per country
Germany: 5.3 million immigrants from other EU states (2015)
France: 2.3 million
Why this is happening
Schengen agreement: Allows free movement of people within the EU across most of its borders.
Increase in member states: e.g. cyprus in 2004