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Q1.
A large number of Indian engineers and other qualified people migrate to the USA and other countries. Do you think this brain drain is affecting the economic growth in India?
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Fill in the blanks.
- The movement of people from one place or country to another is known as ____________.
- ____________ migration could be annual, seasonal or daily.
- __________ _________ is also known as human capital flight.
- Both the __________ factors and the ___________ factors are responsible for brain drain.
- The migrain's country prospers as ___________ enters the country.
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- Migration
- Temporary
- Brain, drain
- push, pull
- Money or foreign exchange
Q3.
Choose the correct answer.
- When a person leaves one country to move to another, he or she is known as
- an emigrant
- an immigrant
- a labourer
- a worker
- The type of migration in which people move from the rural areas to the city mainly in search of better job opportunities is known as
- rural to urban
- rural to rural
- urban to rural
- urban to rural
- The reason people are forced to leave a place is called the
- pull factor
- economic factor
- push factor
- commercial
- Migrants willing to happily take up unskilled jobs are known as
- cheap labour
- technical labour
- businessmen
- agricultural labourer
- One of the advantages to the migrants' home country is
- loss of skilled labour
- increased foreign exchange
- fall in demand of certain goods and services
- political uncertainly.
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- (i) an emigrant
- (i) rural to urban
- (iii) push factor
- (i) cheap labour
- (ii) increased foreign exchange
Q4.
State whether the following are true or false.
- Migration can be internal or external.
- The urban-rural migration is uncommon in conservative countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- Jobs in a new country is not a pull factor.
- Immigrants don't bring rich cultural diversity and traditions to their new country.
- Social and civic pressures develop as migrants entering the new country put pressure on the existing resources.
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- True
- False
- False
- False
- True
Q5.
Define migration.
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