General, international migration from Poland to the UK
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What is migration? | The movement of people from one place to another
🗑
|
||||
| What are the categories for the reasons for migration? | Economic, social, political, environmental
🗑
|
||||
| What are some economic reasons for migration? | Looking for work, or better paid jobs
🗑
|
||||
| What are some social reasons for migration? | Wanting better hospitals, schools, shops, entertainment etc
🗑
|
||||
| What are some political reasons for migration? | Conflict, certain religious beliefs
🗑
|
||||
| What is internal migration? | The movement of people from one place to another that is in the same country
🗑
|
||||
| What is international migration? | The movement of people from one place to another that is in a different country
🗑
|
||||
| What are push factors? | Reasons why people leave an area
🗑
|
||||
| Give an example of a push factor. | Lack of services,
lack of security, high crime rate,
crop failure, drought
🗑
|
||||
| What are pull factors? | The reasons why people move to a particular area
🗑
|
||||
| Give an example of a pull factor. | Abundance of decent services,
low crime rate,
low risk of drought or crop failure
🗑
|
||||
| Flooding is an _______ reason for migration. | environmental
🗑
|
||||
| When did Poland join the EU? | 2004
🗑
|
||||
| The UK placed no restrictions on workers from where? | Poland
🗑
|
||||
| Was the minimum wage higher or lower in the UK? | Much higher
🗑
|
||||
| Was the quality of the services in the UK better or worse than the quality of Polish services? | Genuinely better
🗑
|
||||
| The UK had better services than Poland. Was this a push or pull factor for Polish migrants? | Pull
🗑
|
||||
| How many Polish workers arrived within two years? | 600,000
🗑
|
||||
| What did Poland loose? | A lot of workers with good qualifications
🗑
|
||||
| What was 'The Brain Drain'? | Poland's loss of ambitious thinkers
🗑
|
||||
| Who followed the thinkers to the UK? | Young males prepared to work for the minimum wage in manual labour
🗑
|
||||
| What happened between the people of different cultures? | Conflict e.g. scapegoating
🗑
|
||||
| What happened to the crime rates? | They increased due to the influx of lots of young males
🗑
|
||||
| There was a strain on what? | Services (schools, hospitals) especially in towns with large migrant population
🗑
|
||||
| There was a what on resources and taxes? | A strain
🗑
|
||||
| On the other hand, what happened to the jobs where there was a shortage? | They were filled
🗑
|
||||
| There was a shortage of workers in which jobs? | Plumbers, construction workers
🗑
|
||||
| How much money did Polish workers conribute to the British economy? | £2 billion
🗑
|
||||
| Polish migrants are three times ____ ___ _____ than average British citizens. | more law abiding
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
lychee
Popular Geography sets