1. Migration Patterns
Wed., Sept. 28

2. 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!

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

4. GLOBAL MIGRATION

5. 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

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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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Not repealed until 1943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

11. 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).

12. 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)

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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:

18. 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?

19. Forced migration

20. 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?

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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