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• 3 Globalisation

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• How much in remitances was sent from the UAE to India in 2016?

  $12.5 billion

• Negative impacts of sending remittances to source country?

  Makes economy in source country extremly dependant on the economy in the host country e.g. India is dependant on the UAE and the Philipines are dependant on Saudia Arabia.

• Low waged economic migrants

  Involve less skilled workers moving to find work - they can fill skills gaps and adavance a countries development but only if controlled

• Benefits of low waged economic migration on host country?

  They can be used for cheap labour to develop the host countries infrasture - seen in the UAE where 80% of construction workers in Dubai are foreign

• How is a brain dead formed in the source country

  As young skilled migrants move countrys to find work the source region is left with a skills shortage which can be refered to as a brain dread - there are more African scientists working in the US the the whole of Africa.

• Example of low-waged economic migartion (India to the UAE)

  • Mainly construction work
    
  • 2 million Indians working in the UAE
  • 30% of total population is Indian

• Example of low-waged economic migarion (Filipino workers to Saudi Arabia)

  • Mostly domestic workers
    
  • Around 1.5 million have arrived since 1973 when rising oil prices strating to bring wealth to the nation
  • About US$7 billion sent home each year

• What is a refugee?

  A refugee is a person who has fled war, violence, conflict or persucation and has crossed international borders to find refugee in another country

• How has technology encouraged rural-urban migarion

  • Rural dwellers are gaining knowledge of the ouside world + its oportunities
  • Satelities, televions and Radio switch on  people who live in remote areas
  • Transport improvements such as South America's Trans- Amazon highway, have removed intervening obsticles to migartion.
  • This is all called Shrinking world technology 
    

• Example of mega city growth (Mumbai)

  • In 2015 home to 22 million people (more than doubled since 1970)
    
  • Some very welathy people live their - their spending helps drive up house prices in affluent areas such as Altamount Road 

        - However rising house prices increase          pressure to redevelop slum housing