Question | Answer |
What meant by term migration? | Moving away from the source area, e.g hometown, to the destination area, e.g Dublin |
What is migrant? | A person who the decision to leave one place, i.e their hometown,to move to another e.g a city |
What is an internal migrant? | A person who decides to move from one part of the country to another part of the same country |
What is an international migrant? | A person who decides to move from one country to another |
What is an emigrant? | A person who leaves one country to live in another |
What is an economic migrant? | An individual who moves from one country to another during a recessionary period |
What is an immigrant? | A person who leaves their home country to live in Ireland |
What are the reasons for migration? | Push and pull factors |
Give two examples of push factors | War and unrest, poor standard living |
Give two examples of pull factors | Access to further education and a better social life |
Give two reasons for people in the west of Ireland moving to Dublin | Jobs and more facilities |
Give two reasons for people in Ireland moving to the UK and USA | Famine, Jobs and Adventrue |
Give an example of a planned migration | The plantation of Ulster in 1609 the removal of the native Irish from their lands and giving land to the English and Scottish planters in return for their loyalty to the crown |