Edexcel A Level Geography - Migration,
Identity and Sovereignty - Key Terms
Economic system - ANSWER-An organised way in which a state or nation
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resources and apportions goods and services in the national community
Schengen area - ANSWER-Passport free zone with no border controls involving 26
European nations
Hukou system - ANSWER-Chinese governmental household registration system
Economic migrant - ANSWER-A person migrating for better employment opportunities
or an improved financial position
Refugee - ANSWER-A person who has left their home country because of (a threat of)
persecution
Neoclassical economic theory - ANSWER-Migration theory: the most significant
push/pull factors are wage differences causing migration flows from low to high wage
areas
Dual labour market theory - ANSWER-Migration theory: Pull factors in developed
countries bring migrant workers to fill the lowest skilled jobs because the home
population does not wish to work
The new economics of labour migration - ANSWER-Migration theory: Migration patterns
are more complex than individuals, source countries improve their living conditions by
using remittances
Relative deprivation theory - ANSWER-Migration theory: successful migrants can afford
better schooling and homes for families which encourages others to move
World systems theory - ANSWER-Migration theory: the world economy is divided into
core, periphery and semi-periphery regions. Former colonies are still dependent on
superpowers
Displacement - ANSWER-Coerced movement of people away from their home (often
violent)
National identity - ANSWER-Identity resulting from a common background based on
historical and modern culture, symbolism and feelings of belonging
Sovereignty - ANSWER-The rights of a country to govern itself without interference from
other nations
Step migration - ANSWER-A series of shorter, less extreme migrations from a person's
place of origin to final destination
Deregulation - ANSWER-When the government reduces or eliminates restrictions on
industries
Assimilation - ANSWER-The process by which a person or group acquire the social and
psychological characteristics of a group
Nation - ANSWER-Group of people united by a common sociocultural or ethnographic
bond
Nation state - ANSWER-Homogeneous nation governed by its own sovereign state
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