GEOG-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Forced Migration
24 Sep 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Leo Ellis
Physical Geography
Geog-120
Migration:
Canada and Immigration:
● Canada’s population increase is now mostly related to immigration rather than natural
increase.
● Immigration plays a role in demographic and social changes.
Immigration is encouraged for three reasons:
1. Keep’s Canada’s population increasing
2. Adds valuable members to Canada’s workforce
3. Canada takes refugees who are fleeing oppressive socio-political conditions in their
homelands
Migration:
● Migration is about the movement of people. More than that, migration is when the
movement of people results in the permanent re-location of an individual or a group
across significant distances.
● Migrations takes place at different scales, from movement between neighborhoods to
movement across international borders (transnational migration).
Emigration vs. Immigration:
● Migrants:
o “Persons born in a country other than in which they live.” –United Nations
● Guest Workers:
o Live far and work from their home country
o Send remittances back to their families
o Often employed as agricultural laborers or in the service industry
o Remittances: The money migrants send back to their family in their home
country.
● Refugees:
o “A person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race,
religion, nationality, membership of a particular group or political opinion.”
o Asylum: Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state.
Reasons for Migration:
● Geographers interested in migration ask:
○ Where do people migrate?
○ How do people, places and landscapes change as a result of migration?
○ Why do people migrate?
Forced Migration:
● Forced migration is when authority or power is used to forced people to move.
Document Summary
Canada"s population increase is now mostly related to immigration rather than natural increase. Immigration plays a role in demographic and social changes. Immigration is encouraged for three reasons: keep"s canada"s population increasing, adds valuable members to canada"s workforce, canada takes refugees who are fleeing oppressive socio-political conditions in their homelands. Migration is about the movement of people. More than that, migration is when the movement of people results in the permanent re-location of an individual or a group across significant distances. Migrations takes place at different scales, from movement between neighborhoods to movement across international borders (transnational migration). Refugees: a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular group or political opinion. , asylum: shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state. Forced migration is when authority or power is used to forced people to move.
