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An advertising campaign designed to illustrate the drawbacks of living in the U.K. is being planned to deter an expected surge of immigrants, according to reports Via Seth Dixon 
Meg Conheeny's comment,
April 26, 3:09 PM
Immigration is a largely talked about topic, and many people have different views on the subject. Britain so badly doesn’t want these immigrants that they are willing to give their country a bad image just to push them away. It seems like they are happy with their people and population that they don’t want to see the population rise and they don’t want to give ad to anyone. The U.K isn't the only place that is trying to lower the migrants crossing over. Many places have strict immigration policies and don't want to push the countries population over the top.
Brittnie Helgerson's comment,
April 28, 10:41 AM
When first reading the title of the article, I thought it seemed a bit harsh to just deter people from moving to the U.K. However, after reading the article, I do see why Britain would want to do such a thing. Because the quotas on limiting the number of immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania are expiring, there is obviously going the increase the number of people immigrating to Britain. However, I had no idea it could be as many people as some of the predictions are saying. If there was an influx of immigrants that large, it could really disrupt many aspects of life in Britain. With more people in Britain, the unemployment rate could increase, and as a result there could be more homeless people. There would be more people needing health care, which could possibly lead to less quality care for all patients.
The problem with making an ad campaign to make the U.K. look less desirable to potential immigrants is that they would be spending a lot of money to make Britain “look bad” but it’s not a guarantee that anyone would actually pay attention or take the campaign seriously. Last year Britain spent billions of dollars and to make it look good for the Olympics. So if people from Romania and Bulgaria already had their minds set on moving to Britain, an ad trying to deter them would be pointless. 
Jess Pitrone's comment,
April 29, 10:30 PM
Overpopulation due to immigration is a problem that plagues many nations. Usually, the immigration is due to citizens from other countries seeking political, economic, or religious refuge. It isn’t uncommon for countries to try to deter immigrants for this reason, but they may also want to deter them not because of overpopulation, but simply because they don’t want them there. It can make a government seem harsh or unwelcoming if they enact laws to prevent people from immigrating to their country, so I think that this advertising campaign is pretty genius. Enacting laws or putting quotas on immigrating doesn’t usually go over well (look at the American “Chinese Exclusion Act” of 1882), and it can definitely come back to bite you. What’s great about this UK ad, even though it’s basically an admission that they don’t want any immigrants, it’s a little more subtle.
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Learn more: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=r1ywppAJ1xs Thomas Malthus's views on population. Malthusian limits. This is a succinct (but not perfect) summary of Malthusian ideas on population. What do you think of his ideas? Any specific parts of his theory that you agree with? Do you disagree with some of his ideas? What did history have to say about it? Tags: Demographics, population, models, APHG, unit 2 population. Via Seth Dixon 
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November 5, 2012 11:25 AM
It's interesting how much of a following this theory has received, even though it leaves so many holes in its variables and factors.
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Als wetenschapshistoricus die is afgestudeerd op vroege evolutietheorieen (voor Darwin) één van mijn favorieten! Delete the scoop?
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The world today is changing faster than ever, to stay successful we - our companies and us as individuals - have to understand, embrace, adapt to and anticip...
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How long do countries have until their populations disappear?AS The Economist reports this week, many women in the richer parts of Asia have gone on “marriage...
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Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, warns that a backlash against immigration would wreak havoc on everything from hospitals to the high-tech industry. The interview is part of the Risk Response Network’s “What if? This is article can be an intriguing introduction to a thought exercise geared towards understanding the economic impact of migration and the social processes that create our world. Questions to ponder: Which points of the interviewee do you agree with? Are there some that you think his analysis is off-base? What do you think the impacts on a given location would be if there was no migration allowed? Tags: migration, economic, unit 2 population, immigration, unit 6 industry, labor. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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With seven billion humans living on Earth and rising, Gaia Vince asks whether there is a limit to how many people can be sustained on a finite planet. Delete the scoop?
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This is an excellent spatial graph that helps to explain the distribution of the human population. Why do we live where we live? The longitude map is still fascinating, but has less explanatory power. What would be brilliant is a graph that charted population by latitude (as this does) AND charts the amount of land at each given latitude. To see the originals on the Radical Cartography website, see: http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?histpop Via Seth Dixon 
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This is quite an innovative method to visualize the data.
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Almost everywhere on the world, international migration is a hot topic. Most of the time the debate about migration is fierce and charged with prejudices and... Via Nancy Watson Delete the scoop?
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Starbucks inaugurated its first store in India in a historic building in southern Mumbai as the Seattle-based coffee giant seeks growth in a market long associated with tea drinkers. Via Mr. David Burton Delete the scoop?
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KARACHI: Syed Masood Hashmi, of Orientm McCann was speaking at a seminar ‘Swiss Knife of Social Media’. The event was organized by Navitus,. Mr. Hashmi emphasized on the development of social m ...
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The key facts and figures about refugees, IDPs, asylum seekers and stateless people from UNHCR's annual Global Trends report.
Not all migation is voluntary. Refugees and other non-voluntary migrants often are in their situation due to complex geographic factors beyond their control at the national scale.
Tags: migration, population, development, conflict, statistics, war, unit 2 population. Via Seth Dixon
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Over a bottle of vodka and a traditional Russian salad of pickles, sausage and potatoes tossed in mayonnaise, a group of friends raised their glasses and wished Igor Irtenyev and his family a happy journey to Israel. My regional class has been learning about Russia this week and when I first started teaching a few years ago, I would teach that Russia had a population of 145 million. Today it is 141 million and part of that is due to migrants leaving a country that they see as lacking in economic opportunities and political freedoms (another part of the story is that birth rates plummeted after the collapse of the Soviet Union in what demographers have called the "Russian Cross"). In the last few years the population appears to have stabilized, but there are still many who do not see a vibrant future from themselves within Russia. Tags: Russia, migration, Demographics, immigration, unit 2 population. Via Nathan Parrish, Seth Dixon 
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Seth, I was shocked as well, but the credit goes to my students who have seemed to use some 3rd party website that automatically "views" another site from what they told me this morning. I emailed my class to start visiting my scoop.it site, which I have just created a few weeks ago and they felt the need to help boost my view count. I teach 1 class of APHG (some years up to 5) in the East Bay of Northern California and have been a lifelong geographer. The content I scoop is all me, through my various searches online. I came to scoop.it to begin to collaborate with other APHG teachers and share the content with my students. I feel a bit embarrassed that my site was discovered this way and hopefully the scoops I provide can make up for my student's bad sense of humor.
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This lesson plan was specifically designed with Arizona examples and aligned to the Arizona state standards, but it be easily adapted. I saw a presentation based on this lesson at the NCGE conference as was incredibly impressed. Also, you'll note that like this one, there are many other lesson plans freely available on the Arizona Geographic Alliance website.
Tags: K12, borders, political, landscape, migration, unit 4 political. Via Seth Dixon 
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This is a simple, yet incredibly powerful graphic that helps to show the changing nature of population structure as a country moved to a different stage in the demographic transition (the link takes you to the animated version). Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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Solving climate change, the Sixth Great Extinction and population growth... at the same time Delete the scoop?
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Immigration officials had vowed to stop operations near schools to keep from scaring parents, who might keep their children at home. Activists said ICE had broken its promise. Delete the scoop?
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Seeking a better life and a future for their children, tens of thousands of Roma have come to Germany in recent years. Via Mr. David Burton Delete the scoop?
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Rather than displacing native workers, the availability of cheap immigrant labor can help create jobs for Americans as well, researchers have concluded. Delete the scoop?
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If you confuse Austria with Australia, you may have troubles with our new weekly geography quiz. Take our test and see how you rank. Delete the scoop?
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