1. Where Do People Migrate?
Influences on major global migration flows from 1550–1950
Exploration-Think American History last year
Colonization-Ditto and the rest of the world
The Atlantic slave trade
Impacts
Places migrants leave BRAIN DRAIN!!! Work drain!!
Places to which migrants go Oooo! Indian Surgeons, cheap manual labor

2. Major Global Migration Flows
(before 1950)

3. Regional Migration Flows
Migration to neighboring countries  For short term economic opportunities  To reconnect with cultural groups across borders  To flee political conflict or war
Islands of development: Places where
foreign investment, jobs, and infrastructure are concentrated

4. Migration for Economic Opportunity
Chinese migration in late 1800s and 1900s throughout Southeast Asia to work in trade, commerce, and finance. Also why there are Chinatowns around the world...

5. Migration to Reconnect with Cultural Groups
Migration of about 700,000 Jews to then-Palestine between 1900 and 1948-Zionism
Forced migration of 600,000 Palestinian Arabs after 1948, when the land was divided into two states (Israel and Palestine) into Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and beyond.

6. Guest Workers
Migrants allowed into a country to fill a labor need, assuming the workers will go “home” once the labor need or season subsides. Can work in agriculture or industry
 Have short term work visas
 Send remittances to home country

7. Refugees-People who flee across an international boundary because of a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion. Remember your Pushes?!
Repatriation-refugees that are returned from their destination countries to their home countries.

8. Internally Displaced Persons
Not refugees as they do not cross borders between countries, but remain in their own country.
Remember Katrina? They are IDP’s, not refugees.

9. Regions of Dislocation
Subsaharan Africa
North Africa and Southwest Asia
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Europe

10. How Do Governments Affect Migration?
Immigration laws
U.S. history
Little restriction for most of our history
Quotas by nationality
Selective immigration:Indian surgeons welcome, uneducated campesinos, not!

11. Post–September 11