International Migration

Walls of Shame two-part documentary - https://youtu.be/jJ4nHnsfxNY

Task 1 – You’ll hear the Sonoran Desert being mentioned at the start of the video as a place that
migrants that often cross on their journey to the USA. Highlight the desert area on the major
migration route map above. [2 Marks]
Task 2 – Listen to the migrant from 4.50 who has been left behind. Annotate around the photo below
all the dangers he faced on his trip traveling through this dangerous area. [2 Marks]

Task 3 – At 8.05 you’ll hear the interviewee talking about the mixed messages coming out of the
United States. Explain what she means by these mixed messages. [4 Marks]

Task 4 – 8.47 - Since the year 2000, how many Mexican migrants have entered the USA each year and
how many does this now total? [2 Marks]
Task 5 – 9.40 - Why have the walls that have been built been ineffective? [4 Marks]

Task 6 – 10.20 - How does the Mexican Government benefit from the migration situation? You’ll hear
the word ‘remittances’ being mentioned. What does this mean? [6 Marks]

Task 7 – At the start of the second video, outline the major ‘pull’ factors attracting the migrants to the
USA. [2 Marks]

Task 8 – Annotate around the security camera image below the ways in which border control aim to
stop the flow of Mexican Migrants into the USA. [2 Marks]
Task 9 – 17.50 - Outline the job of a ‘Coyote’ as interviewed in the documentary. [2 Marks]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67296361
https://youtu.be/tWcV94G4rRI

So, why move? What does the data tell us? [18 Marks]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Data from - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/HND/honduras/fertility-rate#:~:text=The
%20fertility%20rate%20for%20Honduras,a%201.38%25%20decline%20from%202021.

Task 10 – Using Google Data Bank / CIA WFB etc, find the most up to date developmental data for the
USA & Mexico and fill in the table below. Please also work out the difference in the final column.
Honduras USA Difference

Fertility Rate 2.321(2023 data) 1.84(2023 data) 0.481

Life Expectancy 76.04 (2024 data) 79.25(2024 data)

GDP PPP (per capita) 6743.3 (2022 data) 64,152 (2022 data)

Literacy Rate 88.42% (2023 data) 99% (2023 data)

Murder Rate 26.1%(2023 data) 6.4%(2023 data)

(Wikipedia)

Unemployment Rate %
of working age
population

Task 11 – From what you have seen so far, note five push and five pull factors in the space below in
terms of migration from South / Central America to the USA. [10 Marks]
 Push Pull

https://geographyas.info/population/mexico-to-usa-migration/

Task 12 – Annotate the Lee’s Migration Model with details that you have picked up over the course of
this mini study. [6 Marks]
Socio Economic Impacts of Migration
Task 13 – Using the graph above, describe the pattern of migration into the States between 2018 and
2023. [2 Marks]

Task 14 – What seems to be the relationship between the sitting President of the USA and migrant
numbers? Why might this be? [4 Marks]
Task 15 – Complete the table beneath outlining the impacts of migration on both the USA
(destination) and Mexico (origin) [8 Marks]
Social Positive Social Negative

Economic Positive Economic Negative

Answer the questions below:

1. The migration of people can be explained in terms of the pull and push factors which
influenced their decision to migrate. Choose any example of migration and name the areas
between which people moved. Explain why many people made the decision to migrate. You
should refer both to pull and to push factors [7 Marks]

2. Describe the positive and negative effects which the migration of large numbers of people
may have on the area to which they move [5 Marks]