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Migration
General, international migration from Poland to the UK
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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