1. Environmental Factors Socio-economic factors
Push and Pull Factors are not the only considerations for migrants. Intervening obstacles are the physical and human barriers that make it more difficult for migrants to move. There are many models that desists to try and make sense of the migration process. Lee’s model is a good example.

2. Environmental Factors
The carrying capacity of an environment determines how many people can live there.
Climate change is impacting the carrying capacity
The greatest impact on food security is likely to be felt by the middle of the century. People will then move to access new resources.
Natural disasters lead to migration. In 2012, 32.4 million people worldwide were displaced as a result of natural disasters.
Socio-economic factors
Human causes of migration are usually socio-economic in nature
People move to find employment, education and a better QofLife, or to escape political persecution or war.
In 2015, hundreds of thousands fled from Myanmar (burma) to escape violence and persecution.
The government failed to recogniser the ethnic group as legal citizens so many moved to Thailand, Indonesia and MAlaysia
Push and Pull Factors are not the only considerations for migrants. Intervening obstacles are the physical and human barriers that make it more difficult for migrants to move. There are many models that desists to try and make sense of the migration process. Lee’s model is a good example.

3. Population Policies
Pro-natalist
Anti-natalist

5. Population Policies China – one child policy India USA Anti-natalist
Delayed marriages 22 men / 20 women
Incentives and punishments e.g. forced abortions
Prevented 300 million births
Female infanticide
118 males born to every 100 females
Spoilt ‘little emperors’
India
USA
Anti-natalist
Pro-natalist
Nigeria
Singapore

7. Homework
2017/01/child-policy-affected-china html

8. Key word
Definition
Natural Increase
When births are higher than deaths and a population grows
Natural decrease
When deaths are higher than births so popultion gets smaller.
Per capita
Per person
Demographic dividend
The economic benefit created by the population of a country
Economic migrant
Someone moving to find work or earn money
Asylum Seeker
Someone applying for permission to settle in another country through fear of persecution in their own country
Refugee
Someone who has settled in another country through fear of persecution in their own country.
Carrying capacity
The number of people that a region r county can sustainably support
Intervening obstacles
Physical or human barriers that hinder movement of migrants
Transit countries
Countries where migrants stop temporarily on way from host to source country
Remittance payment
Money that migrants send back home to support their families
Dependcy ratio
A masure showing the number of people who are too young (0-14) or too old (65+) to work in comparison to the working population (ages 15-64)
Brain Drain
The emigration of well educated or qualified people from a country.

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10. P232 small tb
3 population pyramids