Development, inequality and population movement
Migration decisions are shaped by uneven opportunities, but income alone never explains the whole story.
Part of your national curriculum
- Place knowledge: Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region in Africa and a region in Asia
- Human and physical geography: Understand population and urbanisation, including international development and the causes and effects of migration
- Geographical skills and fieldwork: Interpret and analyse a range of quantitative and qualitative data, including statistical data on trends and relationships between geographical phenomena
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Understand population and urbanisation, including international development and the causes and effects of migration
Key learning points
- • Measuring development
- • A migration decision
- • Effects on origin and destination
- • Avoiding simple stories
This lesson at a glance
- 30 minutes
- 19 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
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Development, inequality and population movement
Migration decisions are shaped by uneven opportunities, but income alone never explains the whole story.
In a nutshell
Understand population and urbanisation, including international development and the causes and effects of migration
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Part 1 · Measuring development
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Measuring development
Income per person is useful but incomplete. The Human Development Index combines income, education and life expectancy. National averages can also hide sharp differences between regions, genders and rural and urban communities.
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A migration decision
Push factors may include conflict, unemployment or environmental stress; pull factors may include safety, family networks, study and work. Intervening obstacles such as cost, borders and distance shape who can move and where they go.
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Part 2 · Effects on origin and destination
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Effects on origin and destination
Migrants may send remittances home and fill labour shortages at their destination. Origin areas can lose skilled workers, while destination areas must plan housing and services. Effects vary by age, skill, legal status and the state of the local economy.
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Avoiding simple stories
A correlation between low income and migration does not prove that the poorest people move furthest; international movement costs money. Evidence from interviews, flow maps and statistics should be compared before drawing a conclusion.
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Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
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Game · Fill the gaps
Finish the sentences
Choose the word that belongs in each gap.
The Human ____ Index combines income, education and life expectancy.
A correlation between low income and migration does not prove that the poorest people move furthest; ____ movement costs money.
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
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Game · Recall cards
Land values are usually highest…
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Development, inequality and population movement
4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. Land values are usually highest…
2. Gentrification often causes…
3. Out-of-town retail parks grew because of…
4. What three dimensions are combined in the Human Development Index?
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Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region in Africa and a region in Asia
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Understand population and urbanisation, including international development and the causes and effects of migration
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Interpret and analyse a range of quantitative and qualitative data, including statistical data on trends and relationships between geographical phenomena