Edexcel Geography A Level Globalisation

1. What are the consequences of large scale
international economic migration?

2. What are the consequences of large scale
international economic migration?

3. Key terms – Mix and match
Key Term Definition
Interdependence Low wage (for that country) jobs in sectors like cleaning, catering
or construction.
Low wage
migration
Globalisation has meant that many people move more freely
around the world. This increases interdependence between
regions. E.g. ‘when America sneezes the rest of the world catches
a cold’.
High wage, elite
migration
The country where the migrant goes to.
Source Country Money sent back to the migrants source country
Host country The country where the migrant comes from
Remittances Highly skilled and influential individuals. E.g. Russian oligarchs in
London.
Brain Drain A city that is a focal point for activities with a global influence,
e.g. trade in Shanghai or Business in London.
Hub City When the educated workforce leave a country, as they have the
skills another country needs.

4. Elite Migration
• Watch this video here
• Flows of wealthy migrants – known as elite migrants
have moved to London.
• 82% of property deals in central London were foreign
buys.
• Qatari investments have bought into the Shard.
• 1/3 of all foreign purchases in London between 2004
and 2014 were Russian HERE
• London’s most expensive apartment in Hyde Park sold
to a Ukrainian oligarch for £136 million in 2011. HERE

5. Low Wage Migration
• The UAE and Qatar have benefited from low wage
migration.
• UAE and Qatar have labour shortages – recruit
manual labour from overseas. Watch this about
labour abuse in Qatar.
• Migrant workers make up 90% of the UAE
workforce – mass low-wage economic migration.
Video here (from 42mins)

6. Impacts of migration
• Due to how connected countries are, they have specific costs and
benefits for the source and host country. Poles are coming HERE

7. Reflect
• Which of the impacts
on the source country
are most/least
important?
• Which of the impacts
on the host country are
most/least important?