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The Emigrants
Activities
2. Migration in Europe: Test the idea that migrants leave poor countries to work in richer ones.
Look through the following table, which shows migration between EU countries in the mid-1990s, then fill in the answer box below.
|
Country |
Gains (+) or
Loss (-) per
1000 people
in the country |
GDP (Gross Domestic Product) – Income per person |
|
(Europe) |
(+ 3.5) |
(£10,520) |
|
Belgium |
+ 2.6 |
£11,477 |
|
Denmark |
+ 2.2 |
£11,261 |
|
Germany |
+ 9.6 |
£11,248 |
|
Greece |
+ 5.9 |
£6,441 |
|
Spain |
- 0.1 |
£8,127 |
|
France |
+ 1.6 |
£11,755 |
|
Ireland |
- 1.2 |
£8,057 |
|
Italy |
+ 3.0 |
£11,255 |
|
Luxembourg |
+ 10.9 |
£16,490 |
|
Netherlands |
+ 2.9 |
£10,761 |
|
Portugal |
- 0.5 |
£7,056 |
|
UK |
+ 0.9 |
£10,306 |
- Find the countries which are overall losers of migrants and put them in column A in the answer box below.
- Find the four poorest (lowest GDP figures) countries and put them in column B in the answer box below.
- Then you can select the most truthful statement from the three options below:
Statements
1. The three EU countries which lose more migrants than they gain are the three poorest countries.
2. There is no match between migration and poverty.
3. There is a close match between migration and poverty, but Greece complicates the picture.
- Find the six richest countries in the EU and put their names and GDP in Column C in the answer box below.
- Find the six countries in the EU with the biggest net gains in migrants and put their names in Column D in the answer box below.
|
Poorer countries |
Richer countries |
|
A |
B |
C |
D |
|
Overall net losers |
Four poorest countries |
Six riches countries |
Six highest net gains in migration |
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2.
3. |
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4. |
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6. |
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6. |
- Now you can select the most truthful statement from the four options below:
1. Four of the countries with the highest net gains land in the list of six richest countries, but Greece complicates the picture.
2. There is a complete match.
3. There is no match at all.
4. There is quite a close match but Germany has more immigrants than you would expect and so do Greece and the Netherlands.
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