L039: Migration, globalisation and families

Distinguish immigration, emigration and net migration, then explain how migration and globalisation shape family practices, care and inequality.

Source note: Source note: ONS long-term international migration provisional estimates, year ending December 2024.

Connect and Check

Migration changes family life through movement, separation, reunion, remittances and transnational care.
Net migration is immigration minus emigration; it does not tell us who moves, why they move, or how family life changes.
Globalisation can stretch family relationships across borders, but policy, class, gender and legal status shape who can maintain those ties.

Access: define immigration, emigration and net migration using examples.

Core: explain two mechanisms linking migration and family change.

Stretch: evaluate how policy, class and gender limit a simple globalisation argument.

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Outline and explain two ways migration may affect family life. [10 marks]