Migration Patterns Wed., Sept. 28

Wed., September 28 Directions: Using the index card on your desk, choose one of Ravenstein’s migration laws and write a migration story based on it! Do not write the law in your story but you should be able to identify what that law is. When you are finished, you will switch your story with someone else’s and figure out what law is being discussed!

Essential Question: Where do people migrate? Migration Patterns Essential Question: Where do people migrate?

GLOBAL MIGRATION

GLOBAL MIGRATION EXPLORATION: Prior to 1500s 1488 – Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope 1492 – Christopher Columbus discovers the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola 1497 – John Cabot discovers Newfoundland. 1497–98 – Vasco da Gama sails to India and back. Colonization: physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting it’s own government in charge & putting it’s own people in place to control the land and natives. North America: French, British & Spanish South America: Spanish & Portuguese

Modern Migration Time-Line Before 1500 1500s- 1800s 1800s – 1900s 1900s-Present

Current Migration Patterns Asia, Latin America, Africa have a net out-migration. North America Europe and Oceana have a net in-migration Asia often migrates to Europe and North America South America often migrates to North America Africa often migrates to Europe

US Immigration Timeline: Colonial Settlement (Prior to 1776) Most migrants from Great Britain. African Slaves European Emigration (19th and Early 20th Century) 1840s-50s Irish escaping economic conditions and Germans escaping political conditions. Late 1800s – The Industrial Revolution drew Germans, Irish, and Scandinavians Early 1900s-Italy, Russia, Austria/Hungary came looking for fortune. Since 1945 After American law was changed, China, Philippines, India, Vietnam, and Latin America began to immigrate in large numbers.

Late 19th Century & Turn of the Century Fear of native born Americans that Chinese will take jobs Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) 10 years Banned Chinese entry except students, teachers, tourists and government officials Not repealed until 1943 Gentleman’s Agreement (Roosevelt) Japan to limit immigrants entering US and San Fran will stop segregating Gentlemen’s Agreement (1903) Roosevelt & Japan

To Become a Naturalized Citizen, One Must: Have a green card for either 3 or 5 years based on your particular situation. Be physically present in the U.S. for 2.5 years. Pay an application fee of $675. Pass the citizenship test. Pass the interview in English. Swear to the judge you will follow the laws of the U.S. Be of good moral character (e.g., no serious crimes).

Current system “Preference” System (1990) Family Preference Employment Preference Unmarried sons or daughters of U.S. citizens priority workers spouses, children, and unmarried sons and daughters of permanent resident alien professionals with advanced degrees or aliens with exceptional ability married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens skilled workers, professionals (without advanced degrees), and needed unskilled workers brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens employment creation immigrants (investors) Immigration law allots 140,000 visas for employment Immigration law allots 226,000 visas for families Priority workers: (persons of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers, and certain multinational executives and managers)

Why migrate from one less economically developed country to the next? Regional Migration Why migrate from one less economically developed country to the next? Islands of development Reconnection with cultural group Conflict and war

National Migration Flows Russification sought to assimilate all the people in the Soviet territory into the Russian culture, during the communist period, by encouraging people to move out of Moscow and St. Petersburg and fill in the country.

US Internal Immigration Timeline: 1940s – Present Increasing Southern Migration 1890s – 1940s Americans begin moving to the Great Plains region for cheap land. 1840s - 90s The gold rush prompts quick migration to California – bypassing the Great Plains area. Early 1800s Interior Settlement spurred by the building of canals and low priced land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi. Colonial Settlement Mostly Coastal Locations. US Internal Immigration Timeline:

In the early twentieth century, African Americans began moving from the rural south to large cities in the Northeast, Midwest, and West. Why did this occur?

Forced migration

Think.pair.share. Directions: Each group has a set of index cards on your desk. Use the index to answer the following questions (putting one answer on each card). You will use several cards to record your answers. Write in marker – no pencil! What do you know about refugees? What are some words and concepts that you associate with the word refugee? THINK: You are in danger and must leave your homeland immediately. You have 30 minutes to pack a small bag of your belongings. What will you take and what will you leave behind?

Gallery walk Directions: You and your group will go around the room (quielty) and read the different stories of immigrants and look at the images provided – not necessarily related to each other. As you read and observe, record the following: Observations about the picture Headline/caption for the picture A brief summary of the article

Refugee vs. Guest Worker flee to a country in the same region as their home country Can alter the cultural landscape of a country! “a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.” Guest workers are legal, documented migrants who have work visas, usually short term. IDP Repatriation Asylum remittances

Refugee vs. Guest Worker flee to a country in the same region as their home country Can alter the cultural landscape of a country! “a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.” Guest workers are legal, documented migrants who have work visas, usually short term. IDP Repatriation Asylum remittances