1. Migration
AP Human Geography

2. What is migration? A permanent movement of people to a new location
Leaving a rural area for an urban area (ex. Great Migration)
Leaving an LDC for a MDC (Mexico to U.S.)
Emigration- migration from a location
Immigration- migration to a location

3. Why do people migrate? Economic motives Cultural motives
Jobs, jobs, jobs! (LDC’s to MDC’s, rural to urban)
Cultural motives
Political instability/ persecution (genocide in Sudan, Pilgrims)
Slavery (Africa to Americas)
Environmental motives
Lack/ abundance of resources (drought in Chad, Florida)
Natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina)

4. Global Migration Streams
FIGURE 3-5

5. Push vs. Pull Factors Push Factors Pull Factors
Reasons that people leave a certain place.
Ex.
Lack of jobs
War/ violence
Persecution
Natural disasters
Reasons that people are attracted to a new place.
Ex.
Jobs
Peace
Stability
Education
Natural beauty

6. Forced vs. Voluntary Migration
Compelled to move by cultural factors.
War
Exile
Persecution
Slavery
Choosing to move for economic improvement.
Jobs
Lifestyle

7. Forced Migration (refugees)

8. Types of Migration From one country to another.
Inter-national Migration
Internal Migration
From one country to another.
Usually from LDC to MDC.
Mexico to U.S.A.
Turkey to Germany
Guatemala to Mexico
Within a country.
Illinois to California
Michigan to Chicago
Chicago to Suburbs

9. Latin America to the United States

10. Types of Internal Migration
Inter-regional
Intra-regional
From one region to another in the same country
Midwest to the South
Within a region.
Michigan to Illinois
City to suburbs

11. Inter-regional Migration in the U.S.

12. Intra-regional Migration

13. Key Vocab
Brain Drain
Chain Migration
Educated people leave a place for a more desirable destination.
Ex. Doctors might leave India to get pain more in the U.S.
People migrate to a place to be with people (family, friends, ethnic) who have previously migrated to that place.

14. Net Migration

15. Immigration Cartogram