IGCSE Geography / Globalisation and migration

The impacts of migration

Edexcel International GCSE Geography (4GE1), chapter 8: Globalisation and migration, specification point 8.2b. Part of the full course.

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Migration is a move to live somewhere else. Its impacts depend on whether you are looking at the country people leave, the country they arrive in, or the migrants themselves.

More lessons in Globalisation and migration

• Globalisation and the global economy
• What drives globalisation
• The WTO and the IMF
• Transnational corporations
• Why people migrate: push and pull
• Types of migration: medical, sport, tourism and economic
• Winners and losers of globalisation
• TNCs: benefits and costs for the host country
• Six migrations compared
• The growth of global tourism
• Case study: mass tourism on Spain's Costa Blanca
• Geopolitics: how relations between countries shape movement
• Case study: how the UK manages migration
• Making tourism more sustainable
• Case studies: sustainable tourism in The Gambia and Bhutan
• Case study: sustainable tourism in Cyprus