1. Warm up review!
What is the difference between an immigrant and an emigrant?
Explain how natural resources can be both a push or a pull factory.
Give 2 real world examples of involuntary migration.
What is the strongest push factor?
How does migration lead to urbanization?

3. Immigration Theories and Vocabulary

4. Brain Drain
Occurs when highly qualified people leave a developing country to move to a developed country
Qualified people know they can make more money in a developed country

5. Selective Migration Showing preference to more qualified migrants
Can be based on skills, youth, or health
Example: A country might allow an engineer to enter instead of a McDonald’s workers

6. Chain migration
Following members of your community or family to a new destination
Can occur because countries legally allow it, or because it is simply easier for the migrant

7. Likely to immigrate
What kind of person do you think would be the most likely to emigrate?

8. Ravenstein’s laws of migration
On the left, tell me on a scale of 1-5 how true you think this statement is.
One the right, give me an example (preferably real, but can be made up) illustrating this idea
Main points
Most migrants move short distances
Most migrants move from rural to urban areas
Large towns grow by migration
Long distance migrations are most likely to urban areas
Families less likely to move internationally than singles

9. Gravity Model
People tend to move to urban areas because of increased opportunity
Cities “pull” them in
The closer 2 places are, the more migration

10. Distance Decay
People are less likely to move to places the further away they are
Example: There are more Hispanics in Texas than in Canada

11. Obstacles and Opportunities
Intervening Obstacle—Things that could hinder migration (make it difficult)
Ex. Barriers (walls, rivers)
Intervening Opportunity—An opportunity along a migration path that keeps people from going all the way to their destination
Ex.???

12. Last Words!
Step Migration—Migrating some, then stopping for a while, then going, stopping, etc.
Critical Distance—The maximum distance at which cost and effort make it not worth it to go somewhere

13. Warm up Which vocabulary term best fits the example?
A relative migrates from Egypt to the United States to join family members in the U.S.
A farmer migrates to a city because he believes there are more opportunities there.
A country in the European Union is more likely to allow entry to a college graduate than a high school dropout.
More immigrants from Nicaragua move to the United States than Europe.
A single man moves from Colombia to the United States in search of a better life.
An educated scientist moves from India to the United States to practice medicine
An immigrant wants to go from Congo to a European country, but finds a job in Tunisia on the way.

14. Africa to Europe Immigration