IGCSE Geography / Globalisation and migration

Types of migration: medical, sport, tourism and economic

Edexcel International GCSE Geography (4GE1), chapter 8: Globalisation and migration, specification point 8.1c, 8.S4. Part of the full course.

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Migration includes people moving for medical, sport, tourism and economic reasons. Knowing examples, push and pull factors, and how air travel has changed helps you explain patterns of movement.

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
• Winners and losers of globalisation
• TNCs: benefits and costs for the host country
• The impacts of migration
• 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