Year 8 · Geography · Population and cities · Lesson 3

Migration

Migration: emigrants and immigrants, internal and international, voluntary and forced migration, refugees and economic migrants, remittances and impacts.

18-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

Define migration and key terms
Classify types of migration
Tell refugees from economic migrants
Explain remittances and brain drain
Evaluate impacts on origin and destination

The method

Type.
Push and pull.
Impacts on both.
Balance.

Key words: migration, emigrant, immigrant, refugee, asylum seeker, remittances, brain drain.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

What is an immigrant?

Step 1: Arrives

Answer: Someone who moves into a country to live

Question 2

What is an emigrant?

Step 1: Exits

Answer: Someone who leaves their country to live elsewhere

Question 3

What is internal migration?

Step 1: Inside

Answer: Moving within the same country