Chapter 3// Migration

Key issue 1, Where are migrants distributed?

Distance of migration
People migrate for three reasons: Economic
opportunity, cultural freedom, and environmental
comfort
Ravensteins laws for migrant distance are: Most
migrants relocate a short distance and remain
within the same country and Long distance
migrants to other counties head for major centers of
economic activity.
International and internal migration
International migration
A permanent move from one country to
another and are divided into two parts
Voluntary migration

Forced migration
Forced migration
Internal migration
Internal migration
Interregional migration
Intraregional migration
International migration patters
U.S. immigration patterns
U.S. immigration: Seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries
Europe
Sub- Saharan Africa
U.S. Immigration: Mid- Nineteenth to early twentieth
century
!840s and 1850s Ireland and Germany
1870s Ireland and Germany
1880s Scandinavia
 !905-1914 Southern and Eastern Europe
U.S. Immigration: Late twentieth to early twenty-
first century

Key issue 2, Where do people migrate within a country?

Interregional migration
Migration between regions of the united states
Changing center population
1790: Hugging coast
!800- 1840: Crossing the Appalachians
1850: - 1890: Rushing the gold
1900-1940: Filling in the Great Plains
1950-2010: Moving south
Migration between regions in the worlds largest
country
Migration between regions in the large countries
Intraregional migration
Migration form rural to urban areas
Migration from urban to suburban areas
Migration from urban to suburban areas

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 Key issue 3, do people migrate?
Reasons for migrating
Political push and pull factors
Environmental push and pull factors
Migrating to find work
Economic push and pull factors
Europes migrant workers
Asias migrant workers
Characteristics of migration

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 Key issue 4, Why do migrants face obstacles?
Controlling migration
U.S. Quota laws
Unauthorized immigration
Characteristics of unauthorized immigrants
Mexicos border with united states
Attitudes towards immigration
Characteristics of migration
Gender migrants
Age and education of migrants
Immigration d in the United states
Immigration concerns in Europe
Sources of European immigration
Opponents of immigration
Europeans as emigrants