Migration and oceans case studies

Migration and Oceans

2.2.2 Diaspora communities – GlobalScot website, Irish communities in New York early 20thC and Chinese

Diaspora in British cities. Colonial links – India, Jamaica and Australia.

Schengen Agreement (Britain are not a signatory of it) and impacts of Brexit on EU migration.

Global superpowers – USA and lesser extent China. Regional superpowers Saudi Arabia, South

2.2.3 Just need examples to support points such as Indian Doctors to UK to fill jobs in NHS 1950s,

Jamaican Bus Drivers to UK etc.

Examples of remittances – Tonga has the highest % of GDP from remittances (35%), Kyrgyz

Republic over 30%.

Economic migration policies of various countries/regions including EU, UK, Australia, North

Korea/Saudi

2.2.4 Refugee Movements – EU from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, Rwanda genocide 1994, landgrabbing

and Climate change refugees in Somalia. Legislation on refugees including UN Ref. Convention 1951

and EU strategy on sharing refugees.

2.2.5 Examples of rural to urban migration – Lagos,Nigeria, Dhaka, Bangladesh and Bogota, Colombia

2.2.6 Role of supranationals including UN, G8 etc

Laws and agreements including UNCLOS, MARPOL and SOLAS

Key trade routes and oil transit chokepoints

Piracy hotspots - East and west central Africa (Gulf of Aden), coasts of south/ SE Asia (Malacca

Straight, northern coasts of S. America (Suez region).

2.2.7 Key trade routes and oil transit chokepoints- Suez and Panama Canal, Straight of Hormuz, Straight of

Malacca

Examples of smuggling and people trafficking routes

2.2.8 Spratly Islands contested ownership in South China Sea

Tensions over the Arctic Ocean sovereignty and resources

2.2.9 Newfoundland Grand Banks Fisheries collapse 1997

Lamlash Bay No-take zone, Komodo National Park No-take zone

2.2.10 Eutrophic dead zone in Gulf of Mexico/East US coast

Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and its impacts

Great Pacific Garbage Patch, North Pacific ocean

Great Barrier Reef Marine Heritage Site (local / regional / national / international / global strategie