1. Where do people migrate?
Migration:
Where do people migrate?

2. Scales of Migration
International
Internal
Interregional
Intraregional

3. Major Global Migration Flows
From 1500 to 1950

6. International Migration –
Movement across country borders (implying a degree of permanence).

8. Internal Migration -
Movement within a single country’s borders (implying a degree of permanence).

9. National Migration Flows
Also known as internal migration

12. Intraregional

13. Interregional

14. US Immigration Waves

15. Waves of Immigration
Changing immigration laws, and changing push and pull factors create waves of immigration.

16. 1920s Quota Laws
Whose country is it?
Data Chart

17. 1986 Immigration Reform & Control Act
Gives amnesty to approx. 3 mil undocumented residents
Punishes employers who hire persons who are here illegally
1996 Illegal Immigration Reform & Immigrant Responsibility Act: toughening border enforcement, expands grounds to deport, strips immigrants of due process

18. Regional Migration

19. 1. The largest internal migration in history is
A) the migration of Mexican workers to maquiladora factory towns from 1980 to present.
B) the migration of Native Americans to reservations in the late 1800s.
C) the migration of Muslims from India to Pakistan after World War II.
D) the rural to urban migration in China from 1970 to present.
E) the migration of Europeans to North America from 1600 to 1900. D

20. 2. Interregional migration was important in the Soviet Union because
A) the government wanted to alleviate population pressures in existing cities.
B) the government created industries in areas near raw materials instead of near markets.
C) the government wanted to populate their country in a uniform manner.
D) the government wanted to move different ethnicities around to mix them together.
E) all of the above. B

21. A) Most African-Americans moved to Canada to escape slavery.
3. Which of the following represents the pattern of interregional African-American migration out of the Southern United States?
A) Most African-Americans moved to Canada to escape slavery.
B) Most African-Americans moved to the West Coast area of the United States.
C) Most African-Americans moved to the rural areas of the Western United States.
D) Most African-Americans moved to urban areas in the Northern United States.
E) All of the above. D

22. Economic Opportunities
In late 1800s and early 1900s, Chinese migrated throughout Southeast Asia to work in trade, commerce, and finance.

23. Reconnecting Cultural Groups
About 700,000 Jews migrated to then-Palestine between 1900 and 1948.
After 1948, when the land was divided into two states (Israel and Palestine), 600,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were pushed out of newly-designated Israeli territories.

24. Refugees

25. metropolitan to non metropolitan b. net emigration from the northeast
4. Which is a current intraregional migration trend in the United States?
metropolitan to non metropolitan
b. net emigration from the northeast
urban to suburban
d. rural to urban
5. In the United States, which is likely to cause virtually all population growth in the next couple of decades?
net in-migration b. crude birth rate
c. natural increase rate d. declining death rate C a

26. 6. Since 1790, the center of the United States population has moved
From southeast to northwest
From northeast to southeast
From southwest to northwest
From northeast to southwest
6. d

27. 75% of immigrants to US are legal
75% of immigrants are chain migration
40% of illegal immigrants enter the country legally but overstay their visa