Changing Faces, Shaping Places
Who do you think you are?
Key questions:
- How many different countries does our class represent?
- What is the pattern over space and time?
- Is this the same in every classroom in the country?
- Where would I choose to migrate to?
Key concepts:
Cultural understanding and diversity
HUman Processes
Space
Place
Scale
What is the pattern over space and time?
There are many different reasons why people migrate and hopefully this unit will have drawn attention to many of them - particularly economic, voluntary and forced examples. The patterns of migration created by the class will vary greatly depending on whether the local area has experienced large or small amounts of immigration.
For a list of migration figures from new EU countries by UK local authority, see this BBC News map.
Voluntary migration patterns have broadly changed in the last century as a result of modern methods of transportation and the availability of information about far flung places around the globe. Prior to the 1950s, few people owned a car and many people travelled no further than 50 - 100km within their lifetime. During the 1950s and 1960s car ownership increased and other forms of travel became more affordable so that people were more likely to migrate slightly further distances but usually within their country of origin. Today, with the internet and cheap air travel, many choose to migrate to other countries for a ‘better' lifestyle or to find work.
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