NURS1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Forced Migration, Deeper Understanding, The Asylum
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Topic 9 health effects of forced displacement. Migration: the movement of an individual or group from one location to another . Migration has always been part of human experience. World war ii lead to a mass relocation of people, and after wwii this not only continued, but increased (all types forced, migrant work, immigration) Globalisation has increased the pace and multiple directions of migration. Forced migration (being pushed out of your home or country) has increased exponentially due to war and conflicts, persecution, disasters, ethnic. The movement of people has become more complex and in some countries such as australia, more socially and politically contentious. People move from one place to another for a range of reasons and with different outcomes. Push factors push people to leave: war, peacekeeping missions, armed conflict (afghanistan) and reconstruction (iraq, natural disasters (indian ocean tsunami 2004, japanese earthquake and tsunami 2011, human disasters (chernobyl 1986)
