Kremenetski(Chaffey) Chapter 3

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Migration

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permanent move to a new location--form of relocation diffusion

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Emigration

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migration from a location

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immigration

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migration to a location

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Push and Pull Factors

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reasons why people move and their characteristics

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Chain Migration

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the migration of people to a specific

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Refugees

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people who have reasonable fear or suffer persecution because of their race, or political opinion.

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Economic Migrants

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someone who emigrates from one region to another to seek an improvement in living standards because the living conditions or job opportunities in the migrant's own region are not stable.

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Dust Bowl (1930)

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The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. The 150,000-square-mile area, encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring sections of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, has little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination.

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International Migration

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permanent movement within the same country

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Internal Migration

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permanent movement within the same country

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Forced and Voluntary

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negative form of migration, often caused by persecution, development, or exploitation.--- or choose to

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Peak of international migration and the demographic transition

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a person living in a country that is in stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) is most likely to migrate internationally...international migration becomes especially important consequence of new technology

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Short Distance internal migration (Ravenstein)

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More people travel short distance because it is cheaper and convenient

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USA Immigration Patterns

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Phase 1 1500s-late 1800s, from NW Europe and AricaScotland, Ireland, GermanyReasons: Irish Potato Famine, Political opression in GermanyUS Immigration Patterns: Phase 2 Turn of the 20th Century, 90% were EuropeanItaly, Russia, Austria-HungaryReasons: Industrial Revolution reaches S & E Europe, Limied economic opportunities at homeUS Immigration Patterns: Phase 3 1970s until today, China, Philippines, India, Vietnam, Mexico, 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act

(Changing center of population. Early settlement in the interior Settlement of the Great Plains Recent growth of the South)

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Immigration Policies

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1921-Quota Act1924-National Origins Act

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Quota Low

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maximum limit on the number of people who can immigrate to the united states from a country during a one year period

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National Origins Act

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A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.

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Brain Drain

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emigration of high skilled people.

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Guest workers

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Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern of Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs.

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Trends in internal migration in the USA

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Late 19th/early 20th Century, rural to urban Ex: The Great Migration, African Americans from rural areas in the South to cities in the North 1950-1970, urban to suburban, motivation = lifestyle, better schools, suburbs more homogenous 1975-today, From Northeast to South and Southeast Example: Rust Belt to Sun Belt

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Intraregional Migration (Rural to Urban)

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permanent movement from an agrarian sparsely populated region to a densely populated metropolitan area--brazil new capital?

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Early 21st century recession and its effect on interregional migration

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slowed interregional migration because there were few opportunities anywhere