A Level Geography at Slemish College

Unit A:    The Impact of Population Change

 

Part 2:  Migration: Causes, streams and impacts

Push and Pull in Migration

  1. Part 2: Help document through the Migration unit
  2. Essay Plan - Ravenstein and migration theories
  3. Migration theory help sheet

Migration Streams

1. Some interesting migration information about streams into Ireland

Migrant Characteristics

1. UK Replacement population (Pdf)

Implications of Migration

1.  Migration in Ireland

2.  Essay Plan:  Migration of rich folks  . . .

3.  Migration web site from the BBC

4.  Migration from NI to the UK (2000)

5. NI Migration report (2006)

6. Information (PowerPoint) about the impact of the famine in Ireland, Donegal and Dunfanaghy

Case Study No 1:  Implications of Out Migration on Blasket Islands, Ireland

Ask to borrow a copy fo the special CD that I have produced if you have no internet connection at home!

  1. Blasket Island Migration (Worksheet)
  2. Blasket Islands Powerpoint Presentation
  3. Reasons for migration from islands
  4. Information about the Blasket Island writers
  5. Exploitation and celebration of the heritage of Irish Islands (Stephen Royle, 2003)  This is a PDF article. 
  6. Blasket island brochure
  7. Blasket island poster
  8. New! 2009 Information about how to write up this case study!!

Key issues:  What impact did migration have on the size of the population?  How did this affect the distribution of the Blasket people?   Where did they usually migrate to?  Was this typical of the irish people at this time?  Why?  Why not?  What were the main implications on service provision in the island?  How did migration affect the econonmic activity and did it have an effect on the physical environment? 

Some extra resources for you to use:

 

 

Case Study 2: Implication of In Migration on a town in Germany

1.  Powerpoint presentation about Turkey to Germany migration

2. Information about Turkish intgeration into German society