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13. Migration
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Transcript (quite a bad one; as they admit, not a word for word transcript of the audio programme)
Vocabulary
migration [maɪ'greɪʃ(ə)n]
migrant ['maɪgr(ə)nt]
migration flow
clandestine [klæn'destɪn] ([formal] hidden or kept secret, often because of illegality)
enforced labour
socio-economic prospects
civil strife
diaspora [daɪ'æsp(ə)rə]
remittance [rɪ'mɪt(ə)n(t)s]
brain drain
human resources
country of origin/transit/destination
host society
irregular migrant
shortage
Questions
1.Where is the International Organisation for Migration based?
2.What’s the general definition of the term “migrant”?
3.Who’s included into a broader definition?
4.What was the situation with migration in the 19th century?
5.How many migrants are there worldwide nowadays?
6.What are possible reasons for migration?
7.What do they mean by “push” factors and “pull” factors?
8.What might pull factors be like? What can facilitate migration?
9.What is brain drain?
10.What can be done about it?
11.What are remittances?
12.What’s the amount of remittances in Africa?
13.What can be the benefits of migration?
14.Why do people turn to smuggling and trafficking networks?
15.What can be the problems of migration?
16.Why has Britain’s health service been hiring nurses from the Philippines?
17.Why do they predict the collapse of the Philippine health system within 5 years?
18.How many nurses left the Philippines in 2001?
19.What’s the difference between a nurse’s salary in the Philippines and in the UK?
20.Why don’t they consider it as a brain drain?
The last part of the podcast is an extract from a BBC report. The transcript of the whole programme can be found here. It seems to provide video as well, but I have no idea of how to watch it.
The Magus
Chapter 12 by Thursday...
Grammar
Unit 32 (Seryozha's debt)
13. Migration
Listen online or download
Transcript (quite a bad one; as they admit, not a word for word transcript of the audio programme)
Vocabulary
migration [maɪ'greɪʃ(ə)n]
migrant ['maɪgr(ə)nt]
migration flow
clandestine [klæn'destɪn] ([formal] hidden or kept secret, often because of illegality)
enforced labour
socio-economic prospects
civil strife
diaspora [daɪ'æsp(ə)rə]
remittance [rɪ'mɪt(ə)n(t)s]
brain drain
human resources
country of origin/transit/destination
host society
irregular migrant
shortage
Questions
1.Where is the International Organisation for Migration based?
2.What’s the general definition of the term “migrant”?
3.Who’s included into a broader definition?
4.What was the situation with migration in the 19th century?
5.How many migrants are there worldwide nowadays?
6.What are possible reasons for migration?
7.What do they mean by “push” factors and “pull” factors?
8.What might pull factors be like? What can facilitate migration?
9.What is brain drain?
10.What can be done about it?
11.What are remittances?
12.What’s the amount of remittances in Africa?
13.What can be the benefits of migration?
14.Why do people turn to smuggling and trafficking networks?
15.What can be the problems of migration?
16.Why has Britain’s health service been hiring nurses from the Philippines?
17.Why do they predict the collapse of the Philippine health system within 5 years?
18.How many nurses left the Philippines in 2001?
19.What’s the difference between a nurse’s salary in the Philippines and in the UK?
20.Why don’t they consider it as a brain drain?
The last part of the podcast is an extract from a BBC report. The transcript of the whole programme can be found here. It seems to provide video as well, but I have no idea of how to watch it.
The Magus
Chapter 12 by Thursday...
Grammar
Unit 32 (Seryozha's debt)