TENSIONS

Question 1

explain Londons melting pot?
- give an e.g surrounding ratio/nationality

Answer 1

• data from the ONS showed that in 2011 parents of 65% of the babies born in the UK were born outside the UK themselves
• diversity is part of Lonsons culture with many different nationality, almost every languasge = migrants are an integral part of a places idenity = cultural blend

Question 2

what 3 processes helped growing diversity through globalisation?

Answer 2

• open borders
• the freedom to invest in buisnesses or transfer capital
• FDI

Question 3

explain how opening or boarders and freedom to invest in buisnesses grow diveristy?

Answer 3

• EU citizens are free to move around the EU as a right
• free to invest with no barriers = migrants can make money/work whereever

Question 4

explian how FDI faciltates growing diversity?

Answer 4

• 2015 UK attracted 32 000 jobs form international migrants to work in software and financial services
• fills skill gaps often do hard jobs
• less pressure on [penson schemes check]

Question 5

whats the definition of diaspora?

Answer 5

movement/migration of people who have a national/ethnic idenity away from their percieved homeland

Question 6

whats a summary deintion of the melting pot?

Answer 6

model viwes migrants as a crucial part of a nations idenity = proud to have a rich cultrure mix
[e.g BHAM balti triangle and chinatown]

Question 7

what has globalisation led to interms of migration and culture?

Answer 7

• inc flow of people around the world & increased awareness of cultrue on a global scale such that [diff cultures live in the same location] = melting pot

Question 8

what has muticulturalism lead to?
positive and negatives

Answer 8

• lead some locations to have a rch multiculturalism soceity = inc awareness, acceptance of cultral mixing
• however, in some host locations its caused TENSIONS AND CONFLICT e.g anti-immigrant riots in UK summer 2024

Question 9

give a summary of the multicutluralism in the UK in relation to the EU give an e.g?

Answer 9

• when the UK was a me,ber of the EU it faciliated free movemet and right to work across other members coutnries
• EU grew more ppl elegible to migrate in the UK in 2021 5million w an EU passport

Question 10

what where the impacts of multiculturalism in the UK?

Answer 10

• became a mulitcultrual society, members of diasporas
• inc econ and social pressure, inc in illlegal migration = tension
• creastes ethical seperattion = in BHAM oNLY 48% of the poplualiton are white citizens

Question 11

what does extremism refer to?

Answer 11

• strong, intolerant political ir cultruarl beliefs that are reject other groups & may encourage hostility/violance

Question 12

what are the main 2 negative consequences of movement of peole?

Answer 12

• immigration tensions -trans-boundary resource[water[ conflicts

Question 13

explain the impact of immigration?
= inc of social tensions

Answer 13

• in the host country citizen may feel that jobs are being taken, pressure on houses and services increases, cultrual changes = resentment and conflict [migranst face harrassment, abuse, violence/exploitation]

Question 14

how has improved tech fascilaotaed migration?

Answer 14

allows you to work remotley - time-space compression
- inc global flows of information and ppl

Question 15

explain how trans-bounday resourced maily WATER cause conflicts?

Answer 15

• rivers flow between countries, developen in once country affects others downswtream
• = reduction in resoirces for some countries

Question 16

using the mekong river case studty what were the tensions

Answer 16

• politcall government aguements between counties especially between Laos vs cambodia/vietnam
• over laos’s large dam buildinf in 2012

Question 17

explain the tension in GERMANY?

Answer 17

• 2015 germany accpeted 900 000 asylum seekers
• sudded huge flow lead ot social and political conflict
• AfD [anti-immigration party] **rose **and became the third larget party in the German governemnet in 2017