1. AP Human Geography Lesson 3
Where People Migrate

2. Global Migration Before 1500, global-scale migration Colonization
Haphazard
European Explorers
Colonization
A physical process where the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land
Europeans colonized Americas and coasts of Africa; parts of Asia
– interior of Africa and Asia

4. Global Migration Colonialism and Imperialism Slave Trade
Responsible for huge movements of people across the world – especially Africa
Slave Trade
The Middle Passage

5. Regional Migration Flows
Economic Opportunities
European colonialism helped establish Islands of Development
Often coastal cities because their establishment based on access to trade
Places within a region or country where most foreign investment goes, where the vast majority of paying jobs are located, and where infrastructure in concentrated
Poor moved from home to find work – once work over government forced workers out

6. Regional Migration International migration to neighboring countries
Conflict and War
Cuba
Syria
Iraq
South Sudan

7. National Migration Migration within a country
Same factors that influence other forms of migration can lead to migration within a country’s borders

8. Guest Workers Legal Often impermanent
Live outside of their home country and send back remittances
Many are abused by employers because they don’t know their rights

9. Refugees
People who have fled their country due to persecution or disaster and seek asylum elsewhere
Asylum: Shelter and protection provided by a state for refugees
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
UNHCR definition: ”a person with a well-founded fear of being persecuted for their race, religion, nationality, or member of a certain social group or political opinion”
People become eligible for assistance and possibly asylum if they fit this definition

10. Problems for Refugees Move with only what they can carry
Have few resources to invest in their journey
Carry few documents for identification

11. Internal Refugees
Forced to leave their homes and move within a country
Internally Displaced Persons
Roughly 28,800,000

12. International Refugees
Flee across international borders
Roughly 19,700,000
Over half in Asia
Syria
Myanmar
Over 1/3 in Sub-Saharan Africa
South Sudan