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Migration · ICSE STD 8 (ICSE - English Medium). 5 questions.

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Question 13 Marks
What are the disadvantages of migration to the home country of the migrants?
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  1. Loss of skilled labour$—$Young people who have the skill, knowledge and professional expertise leave their country to offer their services to another country.
  2. When young people leave a country, the demand for goods and services fall and affects the economic growth and development of the country.
  3. Socio-economic impact on family life $—$ When young people leave their small children and elderly parents behind, it affects them psychologically and they feel neglected in the absence of love and care.
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Question 23 Marks
What are the socio$-$economic advantages of migration which the home country experiences?
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  1. When many people leave the country to work abroad, the scope for employment for those left behind increases.
  2. When migrants return home, they bring back knowledge, skills and new ideas. With these they start their own businesses, thereby providing job opportunities to the local people. For example, In Kerala, migrants returning home from countries such as $\text{UAE}$ and Saudi Arabia have opened up their own schools, restaurants and shopping malls, etc.
  3. Migrants working abroad send money home to support their families. This money is called remittance, which indirectly helps the government of the home country too.
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Question 33 Marks
What are the causes of brain drain?
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Causes of Brain Drain :
  1. Push factors $—$ They include economic factors such as the inability to find suitably paying jobs in a person’s own country, poverty or no prospect of improving one’s standard of living, political instability that causes uncertainity, political favouritism, and religious and social discrimination.
  2. Pull factors $—$ They include higher income and more comfortable lifestyles in the new country, better economic prospects, better educational opportunities including training and research, greater chances of promotion without partiality or discrimination, a liberal and stable government, better working conditions and medical facilities.
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Question 43 Marks
Name any two pull factors for migration.
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Pull factors for migration $($reasons why people are attracted to a new place$)$ include $–$
  1. Job opportunities in the new country $($many migrate to Canada and Australia from India for this reason$)$
  2. Education $($many students leave India to study abroad$)$
  3. Availability of better medical facilities.
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Question 53 Marks
What do you understand by rural$-$urban migration ?
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In rural$-$urban migration, people move from rural area to cities mainly in search of better job opportunities, better education and urban lifestyle. A few other reasons for this migration are:
  1. Villages cannot support a rapid increase in population.
  2. Reduced food supply
  3. Shortage of land.
  4. Machines replacing human labour in farming in villages. This type of migration is common in developing countries like Brazil, South Africa and India.
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