AP Human Geography / Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes
2.12 Effects of Migration
Notes
- Effects on origin: brain drain, remittances, fewer workers.
- Effects on destination: more workers, cultural diversity, possible tension.
- Migration changes population composition.
Practice
Skilled doctors leaving a poor country for a rich one is:
Loss of educated people.
Money migrants send home to families is:
Major income for some countries.
A destination country may gain from migration through:
Labor supply.
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