ABSTRACT
Again, the task for the geography teacher is clear. The movement of people and its explanation are likely to be covered in geography lessons or not at all. The dynamic of world demography is migration and settlement. It is also a continuing dynamic in Britain that too often is seen as recent, as aberrant and upsetting of some imaginary status quo. Yet our classrooms are full of movement and migration that are seldom discussed and even more rarely explained. As an example, more languages are spoken in London than anywhere else in the world: children in its schools speak more than 307 languages, and one-third of its 850,000 pupils do not speak English at home (Baker and Eversley, 1999).
